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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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Affected versions

All versions before 0.5.8

Fixed versions

  • v0.5.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.5.8 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Source file

go/github.com/ulikunitz/xz/CVE-2021-29482.yml

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