Amazon Linux AMI update for apache-commons-compress

1) Infinite loop

EUVDB-ID: #VU86624

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-25710

CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when processing a corrupt DUMP file. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

noarch:
    apache-commons-compress-1.21-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch
    apache-commons-compress-javadoc-1.21-4.amzn2023.0.4.noarch

src:
    apache-commons-compress-1.21-4.amzn2023.0.4.src

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

apache-commons-compress: before 1.21-4

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:o:amazon_web_services:amazon_linux_ami:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:

External links

http://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2024-560.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.