Apache Ant Security Reports
Reporting New Security Problems with Apache Ant
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Apache Ant Security Vulnerabilities
This page lists all security vulnerabilities fixed in released versions of Apache Ant. Each vulnerability is given a security impact rating by the development team - please note that this rating may vary from platform to platform. We also list the versions of Ant the flaw is known to affect, and where a flaw has not been verified list the version with a question mark.
Please note that binary patches are never provided. If you need to apply a source code patch, use the building instructions for the Ant version that you are using.
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Fixed in Apache Ant 1.8.4
Low: Denial of Service CVE-2012-2098
The bzip2 compressing streams in Apache Ant internally
use sorting algorithms with unacceptable worst-case
performance on very repetitive inputs. A specially crafted
input to Ants' <bzip2> task can be used
to make the process spend a very long time while using up
all available processing time effectively leading to a
denial of service.
This was fixed in revisions 1340895 and 1340990.
This was first reported to the Security Team on 12 April 2012 and made public on 23 May 2012.
Affects: 1.5 - 1.8.3
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