Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-36090: When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | apache-commons-compress | 0:1.5-4.amzn2.0.2 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | apache-commons-compress-javadoc | 0:1.5-4.amzn2.0.2 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5CVE-2021-36090 EPSS 13%
Apache Commons Compress 1.0 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Co…
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-36090.html