CVE-2020-14040

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-14040
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-17 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
DescriptionThe x/text package before 0.3.3 for Go has a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that could lead to the UTF-16 decoder entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory. An attacker could provide a single byte to a UTF16 decoder instantiated with UseBOM or ExpectBOM to trigger an infinite loop if the String function on the Decoder is called, or the Decoder is passed to golang.org/x/text/transform.String.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Golang Text All All All All
Application Golang Text All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: golang-1.14.7-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: golang-1.14.7-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Google Groups groups.google.com
Google Groups MISC groups.google.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159645 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for container-tools:ol8 (ELSA-2020-4694)
  • 199182 Ubuntu Security Notification for Go Text Vulnerabilities (USN-5873-1)
  • 377377 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0013)
  • 770039 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.1 Package Security Update (RHSA-2020:4297)
  • 940550 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALSA-2020:4694)
  • 960700 Rocky Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (RLSA-2020:4694)
  • 982555 Go (go) Security Update for golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode (GHSA-5rcv-m4m3-hfh7)
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