#VU74271 Resource exhaustion in Apache Commons Compress - CVE-2012-2098
Published: March 31, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU74271
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2098
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Apache Commons Compress
Apache Commons Compress
Software vendor:
Apache Foundation
Apache Foundation
Description
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 updates from vendor's website.
External links
- 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