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CVE-2021-20291

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CVE-2021-20291

Published: Apr 1, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

A deadlock vulnerability was found in 'github.com/containers/storage' in versions before 1.28.1. When a container image is processed, each layer is unpacked using `tar`. If one of those layers is not a valid `tar` archive this causes an error leading to an unexpected situation where the code indefinitely waits for the tar unpacked stream, which never finishes. An attacker could use this vulnerability to craft a malicious image, which when downloaded and stored by an application using containers/storage, would then cause a deadlock leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

VendorProductVersions

n/a

containers/storage

affected
containers/storage 1.28.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

FEDORA-2021-ec00da7faa
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2021-83b3740389
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2021-a3703b9dc8
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
FEDORA-2021-c56a213327
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA

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