CyberRota Analysis
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2021-35517
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
10.61%
Original NVD Description
When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package.