GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/05/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
Aliases
Published
2021-05-25T18:39:37Z
Modified
2024-05-31T17:45:58Z
Severity
  • 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
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.

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-04-28T19:15:00Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-835"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-05-24T17:52:22Z"
}
References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/ulikunitz/xz

Package

Name
github.com/ulikunitz/xz
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Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/ulikunitz/xz

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.8