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CVE-2021-35516 is an uncontrolled resource-consumption vulnerability in the Apache Commons Compress sevenz package. While reading a specially crafted 7Z archive, the parser continuously and unnecessarily allocates file objects, allowing a very small archive to consume excessive heap memory and terminate processing with an out-of-memory error.
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A denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress's sevenz package. A specially crafted 7Z archive can cause excessive memory allocation and an out-of-memory condition, including from small inputs.
Apache Commons Compress excessive-memory-allocation denial of service using a crafted 7Z archive.
Denial-of-service issue in Apache Commons Compress involving excessive memory allocation while reading a specially crafted 7Z archive.
An excessive memory-allocation denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress's sevenz package. A specially crafted 7Z archive causes continuous unnecessary file-object allocation while it is read, potentially exhausting memory even with a small input.
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