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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published: 2021-07-13T07:15:23.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-08T21:03:29.070Z
Reserved: 2021-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2021-36090
Updated: 2024-08-04T00:47:43.813Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-07-13T08:15:07.310
Modified: 2026-10-08T21:17:36.683
Link: CVE-2021-36090