CVE-2012-2098 - Socialized Doses

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/49255 http://ant.apache.org/security.html http://commons.apache.org/compress/security.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027096 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081746.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081697.html http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113014/Apache-Commons-Compress-Apache-Ant-Denial-Of-Service.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53676 http://osvdb.org/82161 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0130.html http://secunia.com/advisories/49286 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21644047 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105060.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105049.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75857 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html