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OESA-2021-1302 (CVE-2021-35517)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2021-08-06 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
apache-commons-compress security update
Details

The Apache Commons Compress library defines an API for working with ar, cpio, Unix dump, tar, zip, gzip, XZ, Pack200 and bzip2 files.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2021-35517)

When reading a specially crafted 7Z 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' sevenz package.(CVE-2021-35516)

When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package.(CVE-2021-35515)

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.(CVE-2021-36090)

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "noarch": [
          "apache-commons-compress-1.21-1.oe1.noarch.rpm",
          "apache-commons-compress-help-1.21-1.oe1.noarch.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "apache-commons-compress-1.21-1.oe1.src.rpm"
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP1",
        "name": "apache-commons-compress",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/apache-commons-compress\u0026distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.21-1.oe1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "noarch": [
          "apache-commons-compress-1.21-1.oe1.noarch.rpm",
          "apache-commons-compress-help-1.21-1.oe1.noarch.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "apache-commons-compress-1.21-1.oe1.src.rpm"
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP2",
        "name": "apache-commons-compress",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/apache-commons-compress\u0026distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP2"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            },
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "The Apache Commons Compress library defines an API for working with ar, cpio, Unix dump, tar, zip, gzip, XZ, Pack200 and bzip2 files.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nWhen 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\u0026apos; tar package.(CVE-2021-35517)\r\n\r\nWhen reading a specially crafted 7Z 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\u0026apos; sevenz package.(CVE-2021-35516)\r\n\r\nWhen reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress\u0026apos; sevenz package.(CVE-2021-35515)\r\n\r\nWhen 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\u0026apos; zip package.(CVE-2021-36090)",
  "id": "OESA-2021-1302",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:04:32Z",
  "published": "2021-08-06T11:04:32Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2021-1302"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35517"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35516"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35515"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36090"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "apache-commons-compress security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2021-35517",
    "CVE-2021-35516",
    "CVE-2021-35515",
    "CVE-2021-36090"
  ]
}



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