CVE-2021-29482: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

April 28, 2021 (updated May 14, 2021)

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. As a workaround, users can limit the size of the compressed file input to a reasonable size for their use case. The standard library recently had the same issue described in CVE-2020-16845.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29482

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