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CVE-2021-35517

Published: 2021-07-13T08:15Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T06:12Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
When reading a specially crafted TAR 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' tar package. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt