UBUNTU-CVE-2021-35517

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-35517
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-35517.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-35517
Related
Published
2021-07-13T08:15:00Z
Modified
2024-10-15T14:08:15Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / libcommons-compress-java

Package

Name
libcommons-compress-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcommons-compress-java?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.9-1
1.10-1
1.10-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / libcommons-compress-java

Package

Name
libcommons-compress-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcommons-compress-java?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.13-1
1.13-2
1.18-1~18.04

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / libcommons-compress-java

Package

Name
libcommons-compress-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcommons-compress-java?arch=src?distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.18-3
1.19-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / libcommons-compress-java

Package

Name
libcommons-compress-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcommons-compress-java?arch=src?distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.20-1
1.21-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}

Ubuntu:24.10 / libcommons-compress-java

Package

Name
libcommons-compress-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcommons-compress-java?arch=src?distro=oracular

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.25.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / libcommons-compress-java

Package

Name
libcommons-compress-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcommons-compress-java?arch=src?distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.23.0-1
1.24.0-1
1.25.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}