CVE-2012-2098

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream (BZip2CompressorOutputStream) in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file with many repeating inputs.

Date published : 2012-06-29

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53676

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0130.html