UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29482
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-29482
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29482.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29482
- Related
- Published
- 2021-04-28T19:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2024-10-15T14:08:07Z
- Severity
-
- 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
-
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
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / golang-github-ulikunitz-xz
Package
- Name
- golang-github-ulikunitz-xz
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-github-ulikunitz-xz?arch=src?distro=focal
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / golang-github-ulikunitz-xz
Package
- Name
- golang-github-ulikunitz-xz
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-github-ulikunitz-xz?arch=src?distro=jammy
Ubuntu:24.10 / golang-github-ulikunitz-xz
Package
- Name
- golang-github-ulikunitz-xz
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-github-ulikunitz-xz?arch=src?distro=oracular