UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11771

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11771

    Published: 16 Aug 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-11771

    Summary:

    Details: When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, the read method of Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17's ZipArchiveInputStream can fail to return the correct EOF indication after the end of the stream has been reached. When combined with a java.io.InputStreamReader this can lead to an infinite stream, which can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11771, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/16/2, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041503, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8da751fc0ca949534cdf2744111da6bb0349d2798fac94b0a50f330@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11771

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libcommons-compress-java

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.9-1

    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