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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-04-01T18:15:12.603
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:46:17.627
Link: CVE-2021-20291
Redhat