CVE-2021-29482
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-29482
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-29482.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-29482
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2021-04-28T19:15:08.587Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-11T17:19:34.995016Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/ulikunitz/xz
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedFixed
- Database specific
{ "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "0.5.8" } ], "source": [ "CPE_FIELD", "REFERENCES" ], "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:xz_project:xz:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*" }