Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting libcommons-compress-java package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBCOMMONSCOMPRESSJAVA-266336
  • published22 Aug 2018
  • disclosed16 Aug 2018

Introduced: 16 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-11771  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:9 libcommons-compress-java.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcommons-compress-java package and not the libcommons-compress-java package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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