When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.
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EUVD-2021-1582 | When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected. |
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GHSA-5v34-g2px-j4fw | Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Apache Ant |
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Workaround
Apache Ant 1.9.x users should upgrade to 1.9.16 or later. Apache Ant 1.10.x users should upgrade to 1.10.11 or later.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T00:54:51.456Z
Reserved: 2021-07-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-36374

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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-07-14T07:15:08.400
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:13:38.083
Link: CVE-2021-36374


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