GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-q5r4-cfpx-h6fh Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Apache Ant

MEDIUM Published 2021-08-02 Modified 2022-02-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-36373
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.ant:ant
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-130
Reviewed
2021-07-15

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.ant:ant: < 1.9.16 → fixed in 1.9.16 • Maven org.apache.ant:ant: >= 1.10.0, < 1.10.11 → fixed in 1.10.11

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-36373 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency weakness

References