title: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability
description: When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.
problem types: CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
affected:
{
product: Apache Ant
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
versions:
changes: [at: 1.9.0, status: affected], lessThanOrEqual: 1.9.15, status: affected, version: Apache Ant 1.9.x, versionType: custom
changes: [at: 1.10.0, status: affected], lessThanOrEqual: 1.10.10, status: affected, version: Apache Ant 1.10.x, versionType: custom
lessThan: 1.9.0, status: unaffected, version: Apache Ant, versionType: custom
}
workarounds: Apache Ant 1.9.x users should upgrade to 1.9.16 or later.
Apache Ant 1.10.x users should upgrade to 1.10.11 or later.