GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 github.com/ulikunitz/xz fixes readUvarint Denial of Service (DoS)

HIGH Published 2021-05-25 Modified 2024-05-31 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-29482
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/ulikunitz/xz
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-835
Reviewed
2021-05-24

Affected packages

• Go github.com/ulikunitz/xz: < 0.5.8 → fixed in 0.5.8

Description

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-29482 xz is a compression and decompression library focusing on the xz format completely written in Go. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References