-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-deff052e7a 2020-08-28 14:57:45.933599 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : golang-github-ulikunitz-xz Product : Fedora 31 Version : 0.5.8 Release : 1.fc31 URL : https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz Summary : Pure golang package for reading and writing xz-compressed files Description :
This Go language package supports the reading and writing of xz compressed streams. It includes also a gxz command for compressing and decompressing data. The package is completely written in Go and doesn't have any dependency on any C code.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
* The `readUvarint` function would run infinitely given specific input. The function is now terminating if more than 10 bytes of input have been read. Fixes [issue #35](https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/issues/35) (CVE-2020-16845). * Supports the check-ID None and fixes "Checksum None is invalid" [issue #27](https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/issues/27). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Thu Aug 20 2020 Dominik Mierzejewski dominik@greysector.net - 0.5.8-1 - Release 0.5.8 (#1870433) - fixes CVE-2020-16845 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1867099 - CVE-2020-16845 golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867099 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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