SB2012062904 - Denial of service in Apache Commons Compress
Published: June 29, 2012 Updated: March 31, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012062904
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 exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2098)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to algorithmic complexity in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream). A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49255
- http://ant.apache.org/security.html
- http://commons.apache.org/compress/security.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027096
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081746.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081697.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113014/Apache-Commons-Compress-Apache-Ant-Denial-Of-Service.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53676
- http://osvdb.org/82161
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0130.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49286
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21644047
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105060.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105049.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75857
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html