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CVE-2021-29482
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 3.6/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- High
- Integrity Impact
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:xz_project:xz:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:* |
Yes
|
- | 0.5.8 |