CVE-2021-29482
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.
Published:Aug 19, 2020
Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
EPS:Apr 28, 2021
EPSS Score:0.00435
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
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Product
Action
Vendor
Redhat
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Acm
Redhat
Acm
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Container Native Virtualization
Redhat
Container Native Virtualization
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Openshift Api Data Protection
Redhat
Openshift Api Data Protection
Vendor
Redhat
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Openstack
Redhat
Openstack
Vendor
Redhat
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Service Mesh
Redhat
Service Mesh
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Xz Project
Product
Xz
Xz Project
Xz
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