Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package podman-plugins (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-PODMANPLUGINS-10382044
- published18 Jun 2025
- disclosed19 Aug 2020
Introduced: 19 Aug 2020
CVE-2021-29482 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman-plugins package and not the podman-plugins package as distributed by RHEL.
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.