DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36090

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36090

    Published: 13 Jul 2021Last Modified: 9 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-36090

    Summary:

    Details: When reading a specially crafted ZIP 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' zip package.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-36090

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libcommons-compress-java

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/libcommons-compress-java?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.21-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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