National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2098

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: apache-commons-ant-bzip2-dos(75857)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75857

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027096

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027096

External Source: BID

Name: 53676

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53676

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49286

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49286

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49255

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49255

External Source: MISC

Name: http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113014/Apache-Commons-Compress-Apache-Ant-Denial-Of-Service.html

Hyperlink:http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113014/Apache-Commons-Compress-Apache-Ant-Denial-Of-Service.html

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 82161

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/82161

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-8465

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081746.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-8428

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081697.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://commons.apache.org/compress/security.html

Hyperlink:http://commons.apache.org/compress/security.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20120523 [CVE-2012-2098] Apache Commons Compress and Apache Ant denial of service vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0130.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ant.apache.org/security.html

Hyperlink:http://ant.apache.org/security.html