7.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2021-20291

Published: 01/04/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 633
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

A deadlock vulnerability was found in 'github.com/containers/storage' in versions prior to 1.28.1. When a container image is processed, each layer is unpacked using `tar`. If one of those layers is not a valid `tar` archive this causes an error leading to an unexpected situation where the code indefinitely waits for the tar unpacked stream, which never finishes. An attacker could use this vulnerability to craft a malicious image, which when downloaded and stored by an application using containers/storage, would then cause a deadlock leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #988942 CVE-2021-20291 Package: golang-github-containers-image; Maintainer for golang-github-containers-image is Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@trackerdebianorg>; Source for golang-github-containers-image is src:golang-github-containers-image (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlen ...
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A deadlock vulnerability was found in `githubcom/containers/storage` When a container image is processed, each layer is unpacked using `tar` If one of those layers is not a valid `tar` archive this causes an error leading to an unexpected situation where the code indefinitely waits for the tar unpacked stream, which never finishes An attacker c ...