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Security Bulletin: Apache Commons Compress Denial of Service Vulnerability Affects IBM Sterling Control Center (CVE-2021-35515)

Description

## Summary When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package. ## Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35515](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35515>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' sevenz package. CVSS Base score: 5.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) ## Affected Products and Versions Affected Product(s)| Version(s) ---|--- IBM Sterling Control Center| 6.2.0.0 ## Remediation/Fixes **Product** | **VRMF** | **iFix** | **Remediation** ---|---|---|--- IBM Sterling Control Center | 6.2.0.0 | iFix11 | [Fix Central - 6.2.0.0](<https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm%7EOther%20software&product=ibm/Other+software/Sterling+Control+Center&release=6.2.0.0&platform=All&function=all>) ## Workarounds and Mitigations None ##


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
ibm control center 6.2.0.0

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