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CVE-2021-35517

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2021-07-13 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Netapp Oncommand InsightOracle Webcenter PortalOracle Communications Billing And Revenue ManagementOracle Banking Enterprise Default ManagementOracle Communications Cloud Native Core Service Communication ProxyOracle Banking ApisOracle Financial Services Crime And Compliance Management StudioApache Commons CompressOracle Banking Treasury ManagementOracle Financial Services Enterprise Case Management

Weakness Type

CWE-130, CWE-770

References