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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published: 2021-07-13T07:15:22
Updated: 2024-08-04T00:40:46.713Z
Reserved: 2021-06-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-35517
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-07-13T08:15:07.220
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:36:33.683
Link: CVE-2021-35517
Redhat