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Message-ID: <e7d04b16-bcc3-c334-9e64-e57824ac1195@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 04:01:04 +0000
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@...che.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2021-35516: Apache Commons Compress 1.6 to 1.20 denial of
service vulnerability
Severity: low
Description:
When reading a specially crafted 7Z 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' sevenz package.
This issue is being tracked as COMPRESS-542
Mitigation:
Commons Compress users should upgrade to 1.21 or later.
With Compress 1.19 we introduced a feature that tries to recover broken 7z archives, which makes it far easier to exploit this weakness. As a result we have disabled the recovery code by default and users need to enable it explicitly. In addition users are able to control the amount of memory SevenZFile may use and we strongly recommend using this feature when trying to recover broken archives.
Credit:
This issue was first reported to the project's issue tracker as COMPRESS-542 by Robin Schimpf. Later OSS Fuzz detected ways to exploit this issue which managed to escape the initial attempt to fix it.
References:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
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