GO-2020-0016

vendorUSosv

Infinite loop in github.com/ulikunitz/xz

view advisory published 2021-04-14Licence: per source

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.

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CVE-2021-29482UShigh7.5—
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