apache/commons-compress · Security

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Apache Commons Compress

GHSA ID
GHSA-6fxm-66hq-fc96
CVE ID
CVE-2012-2098
Severity
medium
Published
Updated

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.

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