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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482
DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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.
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:13 | golang-github-ulikunitz-xz | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:12 | golang-github-ulikunitz-xz | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | golang-github-ulikunitz-xz | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | golang-github-ulikunitz-xz | 0, 0, 0 |
Timeline
- Apr 28, 2021 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated