Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability

5.5 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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This issue is similar to https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-35517 present in Apache Commons Compress which has been detected by OSS Fuzz.