Fiche vulnérabilité
CVE-2021-35517 : vulnérabilité élevée (CVSS 7.5)
Description
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.
En bref
- Sévérité
- Élevée (CVSS 7.5)
- Vecteur CVSS
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Exploitation active
- Non signalée par la CISA
- Publication
- 13 juil. 2021
- Dernière mise à jour
- 17 juin 2026
Références
- Fiche CVE-2021-35517 sur le NVD (NIST)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/5
- commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
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