https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764640
Bug ID: 1764640 Summary: CVE-2019-12402 apache-commons-compress: Infinite loop in name encoding algorithm Product: Security Response Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Component: vulnerability Keywords: Security Severity: low Priority: low Assignee: security-response-team@redhat.com Reporter: psampaio@redhat.com CC: dblechte@redhat.com, decathorpe@gmail.com, dfediuck@redhat.com, eedri@redhat.com, hhorak@redhat.com, java-maint@redhat.com, java-sig-commits@lists.fedoraproject.org, jjelen@redhat.com, jorton@redhat.com, mgoldboi@redhat.com, michal.skrivanek@redhat.com, mizdebsk@redhat.com, mkoncek@redhat.com, sbonazzo@redhat.com, sherold@redhat.com, SpikeFedora@gmail.com, stewardship-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org, yturgema@redhat.com Target Milestone: --- Classification: Other
The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 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.
References:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/308cc15f1f1dc53e97046fddbac240e6cd16de8... https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54cc4e9fa6b24520135f6fa4724dfb3465bc147... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1761797