Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting ant-apache-regexp package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-ANTAPACHEREGEXP-2025357
  • published30 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Jul 2021

Introduced: 13 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36374  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 ant-apache-regexp.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ant-apache-regexp package and not the ant-apache-regexp package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

References

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