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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2021-35517
HistoryJul 13, 2021 - 8:15 a.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2021-07-1308:15:00
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7.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.014 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.2%

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.

References

7.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.014 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.2%