UBUNTU-CVE-2021-35517

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-35517

    Published: 13 Jul 2021Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-35517

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-35517, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3, https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r605d906b710b95f1bbe0036a53ac6968f667f2c249b6fbabada9a940%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra393ffdc7c90a4a37ea023946f390285693795013a642d80fba20203@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54afdab05e01de970649c2d91a993f68a6b00cd73e6e34e16c832d46@%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r457b2ed564860996b20d938566fe8bd4bfb7c37be8e205448ccb5975@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35517

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libcommons-compress-java

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcommons-compress-java?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
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