Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-35517

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for ver...

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package...

CVE-2021-35517

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-35517

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package...