CVE-2012-2098
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 13%
exploitation probability
13%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://ant.apache.org/security.htmlhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0130.htmlhttp://commons.apache.org/compress/security.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081697.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081746.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105049.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105060.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/82161http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/113014/Apache-Commons-Compress-Apache-Ant-Denial-Of-Service.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/49255http://secunia.com/advisories/49286https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75857