CVE-2021-35517

About vulnerability

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress’ tar package.

Affected product:

Apache Commons , Apache Hadoop , Apache Hive , Apache Lucene , Apache Spark , Apache Tapestry , Eclipse Jetty , Hibernate , Spring , agepredictor , avro , elasticsearch , gradle , infinispan , jarchivelib , jgit , logging-flume , logging-log4j2 , lucene , solr , tika , webdrivermanager

Affected packages:

hive-exec @ 1.2.1.spark2 (+2332 more)

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress’ tar package.