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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package apache-commons-compress  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-APACHECOMMONSCOMPRESS-1362188
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Jul 2021
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Introduced: 13 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-35517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache-commons-compress package and not the apache-commons-compress package as distributed by RHEL.

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.

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