CVE-2021-37136: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

October 19, 2021 (updated February 24, 2023)

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function does not allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37136

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