Security Advisory

CVE-2021-35517

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date July 13, 2021
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory