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Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libcommons-compress-java  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2004-LIBCOMMONSCOMPRESSJAVA-643704
  • published28 Aug 2019
  • disclosed30 Aug 2019
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Introduced: 28 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-12402  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

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.

The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.

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