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.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2098
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75857
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- http://ant.apache.org/security.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081697.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081746.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105049.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105060.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113014/Apache-Commons-Compress-Apache-Ant-Denial-Of-Service.html
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21644047
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6fxm-66hq-fc96