Infinite Loop Affecting github.com/ulikunitz/xz Open this link in a new tab package, versions <0.5.8
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMULIKUNITZXZ-598892
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published
1 Sep 2020
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disclosed
19 Aug 2020
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credit
0xdecaf
Introduced: 19 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-16845 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade github.com/ulikunitz/xz
to version 0.5.8 or higher.
Overview
github.com/ulikunitz/xz is a package for reading and writing of xz compressed streams.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite Loop. An attacker could construct a byte sequence so that readUvarint
would not stop to consume bytes.