| Name | CVE-2021-36373 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ant (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.9.4-3+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.9.9-1+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.10.5-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.10.9-4 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.10.13-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.10.15-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ant | source | (unstable) | 1.10.11-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/5
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact