Description
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.
Published: 2021-04-28
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 github.com/ulikunitz/xz fixes readUvarint Denial of Service (DoS)
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2024-08-03T22:11:05.477Z

Reserved: 2021-03-30T00:00:00.000Z

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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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-08-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-29482 - Bugzilla

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