CVE-2021-29482

ADVISORY - github

Summary

Impact

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.

Patches

The problem has been fixed in release v0.5.8.

Workarounds

Limit the size of the compressed file input to a reasonable size for your use case.

References

The standard library had recently the same issue and got the CVE-2020-16845 allocated.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open an issue in xz.

EPSS Score⁠: 0.00433 (0.622)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

CWE-835⁠

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

ADVISORY - github

CWE-835⁠

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

ADVISORY - gitlab

CWE-1035⁠

OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

CWE-835⁠

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CWE-937⁠

OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

ADVISORY - redhat

CWE-400⁠

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-835⁠

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Impacted images

Advisories

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