CVE-2021-29482 — denial of service in github.com/ulikunitz/xz
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…
Published: 2021-04-28 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7