SB2019083014 - Denial of service in Apache Commons Compress
Published: August 30, 2019 Updated: October 23, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019083014
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12402)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the file name encoding algorithm can get into an infinite loop when faced with
specially crafted inputs. A remote attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/308cc15f1f1dc53e97046fddbac240e6cd16de89a2746cf257be7f5b@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54cc4e9fa6b24520135f6fa4724dfb3465bc14703c7dc7e52353a0ea@%3Ccommits.creadur.apache.org%3E