7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-29482

Published: 28/04/2021 Updated: 14/05/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 446
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #988243 golang-github-ulikunitz-xz: CVE-2021-29482 Package: src:golang-github-ulikunitz-xz; Maintainer for src:golang-github-ulikunitz-xz is Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 14:18:01 UTC Sev ...
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