Bug 1981900 (CVE-2021-35516) - CVE-2021-35516 apache-commons-compress: excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted 7Z archive
Summary: CVE-2021-35516 apache-commons-compress: excessive memory allocation when read...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-35516
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1981901 1981902 1983162 1983163 1983164 1983165 1983166 1983173 1992141
Blocks: 1981912
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Reported: 2021-07-13 17:25 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-08-30 02:55 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: apache-commons-compress-1.21
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A flaw was found in apache-commons-compress. When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, Compress can allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out-of-memory error for very small inputs. This flaw allows the mounting of a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' SevenZ package. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Last Closed: 2022-08-30 02:55:53 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:5532 0 None None None 2022-07-07 14:21:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:5555 0 None None None 2022-07-14 12:54:16 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-07-13 17:25:24 UTC 
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.

References:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf68442d67eb166f4b6cf0bbbe6c7f99098c12954f37332073c9822ca%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/2
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-07-13 17:26:22 UTC 
Created apache-commons-compress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1981901]


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

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1981902]
Comment 3 Garrett Tucker 2021-07-16 17:16:20 UTC 
After analysis, the flaw is excessive allocation of memory given a specially crafted 7Z Archive. The root cause was a function causing continuous, unnecessary allocation of file objects when reading a crafted 7Z archive. Given a specially crafted archive an attacker would be able to trigger a denial of service attack against a system
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2022-07-07 14:20:58 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 12:54:14 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 02:55:51 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-2021-35516
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