DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482
- Source
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-29482
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482
- Upstream
- Published
- 2021-04-28T19:15:08Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-30T03:54:39Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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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