Vulnerability CVE-2012-2098


Published: 2012-06-29

Description:
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Apache Commons Compress / Apache Ant Denial Of Service
Stefan Bodewig
25.05.2012

Type:

CWE-310

(Cryptographic Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> Commons-compress 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75857
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027096
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53676
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21644047
http://secunia.com/advisories/49286
http://secunia.com/advisories/49255
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113014/Apache-Commons-Compress-Apache-Ant-Denial-Of-Service.html
http://osvdb.org/82161
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105060.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105049.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081746.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081697.html
http://commons.apache.org/compress/security.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0130.html
http://ant.apache.org/security.html

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