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CVE-2021-36090 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ZIP package of Apache Commons Compress. While processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, an insufficient symbolic-link length validation in an array allocation-and-fill operation can cause the library to allocate excessive memory despite a small archive input. The resulting memory exhaustion can trigger an out-of-memory condition in an application that processes attacker-controlled ZIP files.
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A denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress's ZIP handling. A specially crafted ZIP 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 ZIP archive.
Denial-of-service issue in Apache Commons Compress involving excessive memory allocation while reading a specially crafted ZIP archive.
A denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Commons Compress's ZIP package. A crafted ZIP archive can trigger excessive memory allocation due to insufficient symbolic-link-length validation, resulting in an out-of-memory condition.
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