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    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

    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Acm
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Container Native Virtualization
    Vendor
    Redhat
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    Openshift Api Data Protection
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Openstack
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Service Mesh
    Vendor
    Xz Project
    Product
    Xz

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