Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libcommons-compress-java (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1604-LIBCOMMONSCOMPRESSJAVA-266338
published22 Aug 2018
disclosed16 Aug 2018

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Introduced: 16 Aug 2018

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

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.

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.