GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/05/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
- Aliases
- Published
- 2021-05-25T18:39:37Z
- Modified
- 2024-05-31T17:45:58Z
- 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
- github.com/ulikunitz/xz fixes readUvarint Denial of Service (DoS)
- Details
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Impact
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.
Patches
The problem has been fixed in release v0.5.8.
Workarounds
Limit the size of the compressed file input to a reasonable size for your use case.
References
The standard library had recently the same issue and got the CVE-2020-16845 allocated.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in xz.
- References
Affected packages
Go / github.com/ulikunitz/xz
Package
- Name
- github.com/ulikunitz/xz
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- Purl
- pkg:golang/github.com/ulikunitz/xz