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CVE-2012-2098 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Commons Compress

MediumCVSS 5.0 EPSS 12.8%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
org.apache.commons/commons-compress(Maven) < 1.4.1 1.4.1
org.apache.commons/commons-compress(Maven) = 1.0 No fix listed
org.apache.commons/commons-compress(Maven) = 1.1 No fix listed
org.apache.commons/commons-compress(Maven) = 1.2 No fix listed
org.apache.commons/commons-compress(Maven) = 1.3 No fix listed
org.apache.commons/commons-compress(Maven) = 1.4 No fix listed
debian/libcommons-compress-java(Debian:12) < 1.4.1-1 1.4.1-1
debian/libcommons-compress-java(Debian:13) < 1.4.1-1 1.4.1-1
debian/libcommons-compress-java(Debian:14) < 1.4.1-1 1.4.1-1
apache commons compress < 1.4.1 1.4.1

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