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CVE-2021-35517

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 10.61%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-07-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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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.