CVE-2021-29482
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2021-29482 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2021-04-28 19:15:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2021-05-14 19:56:00 UTC |
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| Description | 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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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
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| Application |
Xz Project |
Xz |
All |
All |
All |
All |
| Application |
Xz Project |
Xz |
All |
All |
All |
All |
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| xz: fix a security issue for readUvarint · ulikunitz/xz@69c6093 · GitHub |
MISC |
github.com |
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| Release v0.5.8 fixes readUvarint denial of service · Advisory · ulikunitz/xz · GitHub |
CONFIRM |
github.com |
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| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 180034 Debian Security Update for golang-github-ulikunitz-xz (CVE-2021-29482)
- 982402 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/ulikunitz/xz (GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27)
