CVE-2021-29482

NameCVE-2021-29482
Descriptionxz 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.
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Debian Bugs988243

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
golang-github-ulikunitz-xz (PTS)sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye0.5.6-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
golang-github-ulikunitz-xzsource(unstable)0.5.6-2988243

Notes

https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b

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