CVE-2021-29482 (GCVE-0-2021-29482)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-28 18:15 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:11
VLAI
Title
denial of service in github.com/ulikunitz/xz
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-835 - {"CWE-835":"Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')"}
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ulikunitz xz Affected: < 0.5.8
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