Excessive Iteration
CVE-2021-35515
Summary
When reading a specially crafted 7Z archive before 1.21, the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry can result in an infinite loop. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' sevenz package.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
CWE-834 - Excessive Iteration
The software performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published