UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12402

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12402

    Published: 30 Aug 2019Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-12402

    Summary:

    Details: The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12402, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/08/27/1, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/308cc15f1f1dc53e97046fddbac240e6cd16de89a2746cf257be7f5b@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12402

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libcommons-compress-java

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~18.04?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.13-1

    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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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