CVE-2021-29482

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ulikunitzxz< 0.5.8affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-835: {"CWE-835":"Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')"}

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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