Apache Commons Compress: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2019.3257
                  Apache Commons Compress CVE-2019-12402
                              28 August 2019

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           Apache Commons Compress
Publisher:         Apache
Operating System:  UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                   Windows
Impact/Access:     Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2019-12402  

Original Bulletin: 
   https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-user/201908.mbox/browser
   https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html

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Severity: Low

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18

Description:
The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons
Compress can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially
crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an
attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by
Compress.

Mitigation:
Commons Compress users should upgrade to 1.19 or later.

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Masaya Suzuki of Google.

References:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html

Stefan Bodewig
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