GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27
github.com/ulikunitz/xz fixes readUvarint Denial of Service (DoS)
Quick fix
GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27 — github.com/ulikunitz/xz: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
go get github.com/ulikunitz/xz@v0.5.8Details
### 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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References
- https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-25xm-hr59-7c27[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29482[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/issues/35[WEB]
- https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b[WEB]
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0016[WEB]