xz is a compression and decompression library focusing on the xz format completely written in Go. The function readUvarint used to read the xz container format may not terminate a loop provide malicous input. The problem has been fixed in release v0.5.8. As a workaround users can limit the size of the compressed file input to a reasonable size for their use case. The standard library had recently the same issue and got the CVE-2020-16845 allocated.
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EUVD-2021-0896 | xz is a compression and decompression library focusing on the xz format completely written in Go. The function readUvarint used to read the xz container format may not terminate a loop provide malicous input. The problem has been fixed in release v0.5.8. As a workaround users can limit the size of the compressed file input to a reasonable size for their use case. The standard library had recently the same issue and got the CVE-2020-16845 allocated. |
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GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 | github.com/ulikunitz/xz fixes readUvarint Denial of Service (DoS) |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T22:11:05.477Z
Reserved: 2021-03-30T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-29482

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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-04-28T19:15:08.587
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:01:13.820
Link: CVE-2021-29482


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