A deadlock vulnerability was found in 'github.com/containers/storage' in versions before 1.28.1. When a container image is processed, each layer is unpacked using `tar`. If one of those layers is not a valid `tar` archive this causes an error leading to an unexpected situation where the code indefinitely waits for the tar unpacked stream, which never finishes. An attacker could use this vulnerability to craft a malicious image, which when downloaded and stored by an application using containers/storage, would then cause a deadlock leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-04-01T17:49:40

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:37:23.517Z

Reserved: 2020-12-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-20291

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-04-01T18:15:12.603

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:29:04.623

Link: CVE-2021-20291

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-20291 - Bugzilla