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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2021-04-28T18:15:15

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

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

Link: CVE-2021-29482

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-04-28T19:15:08.587

Modified: 2021-05-14T19:56:32.117

Link: CVE-2021-29482

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2021-29482 - Bugzilla