CVE-2021-29482

Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29482

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-29482.json

Aliases

• GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
• GO-2020-0016

Published

2021-04-28T19:15:08Z

Modified

2023-11-29T08:45:48.820786Z

Details

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.

References

• https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
• https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b