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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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| xz_project / xz | - | 0.5.8 |
github.com/ulikunitz/xz
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- | 0.5.8 |