Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache Ant affect IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache Ant used by IBM InfoSphere Information Server were addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-36373
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Ant is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205311 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-36374
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Ant is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205314 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2012-2098
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Compress and Apache Ant are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when using bzip2 compression to compress files. By passing specially-crafted input to the BZip2CompressorOutputStream class, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75857 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

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Workarounds and Mitigations

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