ghsa-25xm-hr59-7c27
Vulnerability from github
Published
2021-05-25 18:39
Modified
2024-05-31 17:45
Severity ?
Summary
github.com/ulikunitz/xz fixes readUvarint Denial of Service (DoS)
Details
Impact
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.
Patches
The problem has been fixed in release v0.5.8.
Workarounds
Limit the size of the compressed file input to a reasonable size for your use case.
References
The standard library had recently the same issue and got the CVE-2020-16845 allocated.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in xz.
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