CVE-2021-36373

Name
CVE-2021-36373
Description
When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://ant.apache.org/security.html
MISC https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54afdab05e01de970649c2d91a993f68a6b00cd73e6e34e16c832d46%40%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E
MLIST https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r27919fd4db07c487239c1d9771f480d89ce5ee2750aa9447309b709a@%3Ccommits.groovy.apache.org%3E
MLIST https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r544c9e8487431768465b8b2d13982c75123109bd816acf839d46010d@%3Ccommits.groovy.apache.org%3E
MLIST https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad36f470647c5a7c02dd78c9973356d2840766d132b597b6444e373a@%3Cnotifications.groovy.apache.org%3E
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210819-0007/
Mailing List https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4bb79751a02889623195715925e4fd8932dd3c97e0ade91395a96c6@%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E
MISC https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
Patch https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
MISC https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ant >= 1.9.0 < 1.9.16
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ant >= 1.10.0 < 1.10.11

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
apache-ant 3.14-community 1.10.11-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed