CVE-2021-36090

Summary:

When reading a specially crafted ZIP 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’ zip package.

Reference Links(if available):

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc4134026d7d7b053d4f9f2205531122732405012c8804fd850a9b26f%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/4

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9a23d4dbf4e34d498664080bff59f2893b855eb16dae33e4aa92fa53@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdd5412a5b9a25aed2a02c3317052d38a97128314d50bc1ed36e81d38@%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E

CVSS Score (if available)

v2: / HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

v3: / HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Links to Exploits(if available)