CVE-2012-2098

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.

Score
CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2012-06-29
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-310

Affected products

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