CVE-2021-29482 DetailDescriptionxz 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. Severity
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Denotes Vulnerable Software Quick InfoCVE Dictionary Entry:CVE-2021-29482 NVD Published Date: 04/28/2021 NVD Last Modified: 05/14/2021 Source: GitHub, Inc. |