{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-15T09:00:10.782818524Z","published":"2021-04-28T19:15:08.587Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-29482"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-29482"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"golang-github-ulikunitz-xz","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-ulikunitz-xz?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.6-2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482.json"}},{"package":{"name":"golang-github-ulikunitz-xz","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-ulikunitz-xz?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.6-2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482.json"}},{"package":{"name":"golang-github-ulikunitz-xz","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-ulikunitz-xz?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.6-2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29482.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}