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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:15:48 +0200
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@...che.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [CVE-2019-12402] Apache Commons Compress denial of service vulnerability

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Severity: Low

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18

Description:
The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons
Compress can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially
crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an
attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by
Compress.

Mitigation:
Commons Compress users should upgrade to 1.19 or later.

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Masaya Suzuki of Google.

References:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html

Stefan Bodewig
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