Apache Commons Compress extra field parser denial of service vulnerability

Apache Commons Compress is a library from the Apache Software Foundation for processing compressed files. extra field parser is one of the field parsers. A security vulnerability exists in the extra field parser in Apache Commons Compress versions 1.11 through 1.15. An attacker can exploit this...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1324

A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15. This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip...