CVE-2021-35517

Summary

CVECVE-2021-35517
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-13 08:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:36:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Commons Compress All All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager - All All All
Application Netapp Oncommand Insight - All All All
Application Oracle Banking Apis 19.1 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Apis 19.2 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Apis 20.1 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Apis 21.1 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Apis All All All All
Application Oracle Banking Digital Experience 19.1 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Digital Experience 19.2 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Digital Experience 20.1 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Digital Experience 21.1 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Digital Experience All All All All
Application Oracle Banking Enterprise Default Management 2.7.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Party Management 2.7.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Payments 14.5 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Trade Finance 14.5 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Treasury Management 14.5 All All All
Application Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12.2.1.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12.2.1.4.0 All All All
Application Oracle Commerce Guided Search 11.3.2 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Billing And Revenue Management 12.0.0.4 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Service Communication Proxy 1.14.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Unified Data Repository 1.14.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Diameter Intelligence Hub All All All All
Operating System Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.1 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Session Route Manager All All All All
Application Oracle Financial Services Crime And Compliance Management Studio 8.0.8.2.0 All All All
Application Oracle Financial Services Crime And Compliance Management Studio 8.0.8.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Financial Services Enterprise Case Management 8.0.7.2.0 All All All
Application Oracle Financial Services Enterprise Case Management 8.0.8.1.0 All All All
Application Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking 12.4 All All All
Application Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking 14.5 All All All
Application Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking All All All All
Application Oracle Healthcare Data Repository 8.1.0 All All All
Application Oracle Insurance Policy Administration 11.0.2 All All All
Application Oracle Insurance Policy Administration 11.1.0 All All All
Application Oracle Insurance Policy Administration 11.2.8 All All All
Application Oracle Insurance Policy Administration 11.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Insurance Policy Administration 11.3.1 All All All
Application Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools 8.57 All All All
Application Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools 8.58 All All All
Application Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools 8.59 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier 18.8 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier 19.12 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier 20.12 All All All
Application Oracle Primavera Unifier All All All All
Application Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator 6.0.0.1.1 All All All
Application Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator 6.0.0.2.2 All All All
Application Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator 6.0.0.3.1 All All All
Application Oracle Webcenter Portal 12.2.1.3.0 All All All
Application Oracle Webcenter Portal 12.2.1.4.0 All All All

References

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Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[poi-dev] 20210923 Re: [VOTE] Apache POI 5.1.0 release (RC1) lists.apache.org
[skywalking-notifications] 20210802 [skywalking] 01/01: Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090 lists.apache.org
[pulsar-commits] 20210716 [GitHub] [pulsar] lhotari opened a new pull request #11345: [Security] Upgrade commons-compress to 1.21 lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[skywalking-notifications] 20210803 [GitHub] [skywalking] codecov[bot] edited a comment on pull request #7400: Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090 lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
[skywalking-notifications] 20210802 [GitHub] [skywalking] wu-sheng opened a new pull request #7400: Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090 lists.apache.org
oss-security - CVE-2021-35517: Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability MLIST www.openwall.com
July 2021 Apache Commons Compress Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
[skywalking-notifications] 20210803 [GitHub] [skywalking] hanahmily merged pull request #7400: Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090 lists.apache.org
[announce] 20210713 CVE-2021-36373: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
[skywalking-notifications] 20210803 [skywalking] branch master updated: Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090 (#7400) lists.apache.org
[skywalking-notifications] 20210802 [GitHub] [skywalking] codecov[bot] commented on pull request #7400: Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090 lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[skywalking-notifications] 20210802 [GitHub] [skywalking] codecov[bot] edited a comment on pull request #7400: Fix CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090 lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MISC lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Commons Compress – Commons Compress Security Reports MISC commons.apache.org
oss-security - CVE-2021-36373: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability MLIST www.openwall.com
[announce] 20210713 CVE-2021-35517: Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[ant-user] 20210713 CVE-2021-36373: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability lists.apache.org
[flink-issues] 20210908 [GitHub] [flink] MartijnVisser opened a new pull request #17194: [FLINK-24034] Upgrade commons-compress to 1.21 and other apache.commons updates lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2022 N/A www.oracle.com
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: This issue was discovered by OSS Fuzz.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184964 Debian Security Update for libcommons-compress-java (CVE-2021-35517)
  • 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
  • 750923 OpenSUSE Security Update for apache-commons-compress (openSUSE-SU-2021:2612-1)
  • 750938 OpenSUSE Security Update for apache-commons-compress (openSUSE-SU-2021:1115-1)
  • 980267 Java (maven) Security Update for org.apache.commons:commons-compress (GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34)
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