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apache-commons-compress: denial of service

Package(s):apache-commons-compress CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2098
Created:June 4, 2012 Updated:May 13, 2013
Description: From the CVE entry:

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.

Fixed in version 1.4.1.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8428 2012-06-02
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8465 2012-06-03
Fedora FEDORA-2013-5548 2013-05-11
Fedora FEDORA-2013-5546 2013-05-11
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