GHSA-q6gq-997w-f55g

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    GHSA-q6gq-997w-f55g

    Published: 16 Dec 2021Last Modified: 14 Oct 2025

    Summary: Withdrawn Advisory: Infinite loop in xz

    Details: ### Withdrawn Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because alerts cannot be issued for the Go standard library at this time. ### Original Description Go before 1.13.15 and 14.x before 1.14.7 can have an infinite read loop in ReadUvarint and ReadVarint in encoding/binary via invalid inputs.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16845, https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/issues/35, https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/NyPIaucMgXo, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/_ulYYcIWg3Q, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00037.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00038.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6RCFJTMKHY5ICGEM5BUFUEDDGSPJ25XU, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KWRBAH4UZJO3RROQ72SYCUPFCJFA22FO, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TACQFZDPA7AUR6TRZBCX2RGRFSDYLI7O, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WV2VWKFTH4EJGZBZALVUJQJOAQB5MDQ4, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0002, https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4848, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00021.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00028.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00029.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00030.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/ulikunitz/xz

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/ulikunitz/xz

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.5.8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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