golang-github-ulikunitz-xz: CVE-2021-29482

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golang-github-ulikunitz-xz: CVE-2021-29482

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: golang-github-ulikunitz-xz: CVE-2021-29482

Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 16:14:23 +0200

Source: golang-github-ulikunitz-xz
Version: 0.5.6-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Justification: user security hole
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for golang-github-ulikunitz-xz.

CVE-2021-29482[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-29482
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-29482
[1] https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
[2] https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b

Regards,
Salvatore

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