Bug#893174: libcommons-compress-java: CVE-2018-1324: Infinite loop via extra field parser in ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libcommons-compress-java
Version: 1.13-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-432

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libcommons-compress-java.

CVE-2018-1324[0]:
| A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop
| inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the
| ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15.
| This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services
| that use Compress' zip package.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1324
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1324
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-432
[2]  https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-compress.git;a=blobdiff;f=src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/zip/X0017_StrongEncryptionHeader.java;h=acc3b22346b49845e85b5ef27a5814b69e834139;hp=0feb9c98cc622cde1defa3bbd268ef82b4ae5c18;hb=2a2f1dc48e22a34ddb72321a4db211da91aa933b;hpb=dcb0486fb4cb2b6592c04d6ec2edbd3f690df5f2

Regards,
Salvatore