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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

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13golang-github-ulikunitz-xz0, 0, 0
Debian:12golang-github-ulikunitz-xz0, 0, 0
Debian:11golang-github-ulikunitz-xz0, 0, 0
Debian:14golang-github-ulikunitz-xz0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Apr 28, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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