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CVE-2021-36374

Apache Ant ZIP, and ZIP based, archive denial of service vulerability

Description

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Ant

  • 1.4 to < Apache Ant*affected
  • Apache Ant 1.9.x to ≤ 1.9.15affected
  • Apache Ant 1.10.x to ≤ 1.10.10affected

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