GO-2020-0016

Infinite loop in github.com/ulikunitz/xz

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-29482
Aliases
GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27

Description

An attacker can construct a series of bytes such that calling Reader.Read on the bytes could cause an infinite loop. If parsing user supplied input, this may be used as a denial of service vector.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Go · github.com/ulikunitz/xzintroduced 0, fixed 0.5.8

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database