Cryptographic Issues The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libcommons-compress-java  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-LIBCOMMONSCOMPRESSJAVA-646231
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed29 Jun 2012

Introduced: 29 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-2098  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

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 Ubuntu.

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.