Bug 1981903 (CVE-2021-35517)

Summary:	CVE-2021-35517 apache-commons-compress: excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted TAR archive
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aileenc, alazarot, anstephe, chazlett, dblechte, dfediuck, drieden, eedri, emingora, gmalinko, hhorak, ibek, janstey, java-maint-sig, java-sig-commits, jochrist, jorton, jrokos, jstastny, jwon, krathod, kverlaen, michal.skrivanek, mizdebsk, mkoncek, mnovotny, pdelbell, pjindal, rguimara, rrajasek, sbonazzo, sherold, SpikeFedora, yturgema
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	apache-commons-compress-1.21	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in apache-commons-compress. When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out-of-memory error for small inputs. This flaw allows the mounting of a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' TAR package. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2022-08-30 03:55:52 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1981904, 1981905, 1983226, 1983227, 1983228, 1983229, 1983230, 1983231, 1992141
Bug Blocks:	1981912

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-07-13 17:28:15 UTC

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:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r605d906b710b95f1bbe0036a53ac6968f667f2c249b6fbabada9a940%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-07-13 17:28:39 UTC

Created apache-commons-compress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1981905]


Created javapackages-bootstrap:202001/apache-commons-compress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1981904]

Comment 2 Garrett Tucker 2021-07-16 21:43:40 UTC

After analysis, a Denial of Service attack is possible via excessive memory allocated caused by a crafted tar archive. An ongoing method of allocating an array then trying to fill it, combined with a lack of checks of PAX header value size allowed for excessive memory allocation. Thus a specially crafted archive could force excessive memory allocation impacting availability of a system.

This flaw has been fixed in Version 1.21

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2022-07-07 14:21:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Fuse 7.11

Via RHSA-2022:5532 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5532

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2022-07-14 12:54:16 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4

Via RHSA-2022:5555 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5555

Comment 18 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-08-30 03:55:49 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-35517