CVE-2016-5004 (GCVE-0-2016-5004)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-06-06 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:46
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Content-Encoding HTTP header feature in ws-xmlrpc 3.1.3 as used in Apache Archiva allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by decompressing a large file containing zeroes.
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