Description
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.
Published: 2021-07-13
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Vendor Workaround

Commons Compress users should upgrade to 1.21 or later.

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1939 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/5 cve-icon cve-icon
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r31f75743ac173b0a606f8ea6ea53f351f386c44e7bcf78ae04007c29%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r457b2ed564860996b20d938566fe8bd4bfb7c37be8e205448ccb5975%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54afdab05e01de970649c2d91a993f68a6b00cd73e6e34e16c832d46%40%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r605d906b710b95f1bbe0036a53ac6968f667f2c249b6fbabada9a940%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r67ef3c07fe3b8c1b02d48012149d280ad6da8e4cec253b527520fb2b%40%3Cdev.poi.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f54c0caa462267e0cc68b49f141e91432b36b23348d18c65bd0d040%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra393ffdc7c90a4a37ea023946f390285693795013a642d80fba20203%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/racd0c0381c8404f298b226cd9db2eaae965b14c9c568224aa3f437ae%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb064d705fdfa44b5dae4c366b369ef6597951083196321773b983e71%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb6e1fa80d34e5ada45f72655d84bfd90db0ca44ef19236a49198c88c%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb7adf3e55359819e77230b4586521e5c6874ce5ed93384bdc14d6aee%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rba65ed5ddb0586f5b12598f55ec7db3633e7b7fede60466367fbf86a%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd4332baaf6debd03d60deb7ec93bee49e5fdbe958cb6800dff7fb00e%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfba19167efc785ad3561e7ef29f340d65ac8f0d897aed00e0731e742%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35517 cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211022-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35517 cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:40:46.713Z

Reserved: 2021-06-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-35517

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-07-13T08:15:07.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:12:25.653

Link: CVE-2021-35517

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-35517 - Bugzilla

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