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CVE-2012-2098

medium · 5

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.

5
CVSS
12.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2012-06-29
Published

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

CWE-310

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
apachecommons_compress< 1.4.1

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References

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