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CVE-2021-36090 When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally…

Description

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.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Apache Commons Compress 1.20 earliest → 1.20 No fix stated

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