CVE-2021-29482
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2021-04-28T18:15:15
State: PUBLISHED
affected: product: xz
vendor: ulikunitz
versions: status: affected
version: < 0.5.8
descriptions: value: 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.
metrics: cvssV3_1: attackComplexity: LOW
attackVector: NETWORK
availabilityImpact: HIGH
baseScore: 7.5
baseSeverity: HIGH
confidentialityImpact: NONE
integrityImpact: NONE
privilegesRequired: NONE
scope: UNCHANGED
userInteraction: NONE
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
version: 3.1
problemTypes: descriptions: cweId: CWE-835
description: CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
type: CWE
source: advisory: GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
discovery: UNKNOWN
title: denial of service in github.com/ulikunitz/xz