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| Vulnerability_id | VCID-esea-tj2b-h7ey |
| Summary | github.com/ulikunitz/xz fixes readUvarint Denial of Service (DoS)
### 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](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16845) allocated.
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Open an issue in [xz](https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/issues). |
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GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 |
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https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-29482 |
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| cwe_id |
835 |
| name |
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') |
| description |
The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop. |
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| Severity_range_score | 7.0 - 8.9 |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted_severity | 8.0 |
| Risk_score | 4.0 |
| Resource_url | http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-esea-tj2b-h7ey |