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CVE-2021-29482
high
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.
References
https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b