CVE-2020-16845

Summary

CVECVE-2020-16845
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-08-06 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:19:00 UTC
DescriptionGo before 1.13.15 and 14.x before 1.14.7 can have an infinite read loop in ReadUvarint and ReadVarint in encoding/binary via invalid inputs.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Golang Go All All All All
Application Golang Go All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4848-1 golang-1.11 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Google Groups groups.google.com
Google Groups groups.google.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: golang-1.14.7-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: golang-github-ulikunitz-xz-0.5.8-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: golang-1.14.7-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1405-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: golang-github-ulikunitz-xz-0.5.8-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2460-1] golang-1.8 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1178-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2020-16845 Golang Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
Google Groups CONFIRM groups.google.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: golang-github-ulikunitz-xz-0.5.8-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2459-1] golang-1.7 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: golang-1.13.15-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: golang-1.13.15-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1407-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: golang-github-ulikunitz-xz-0.5.8-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
Google Groups MISC groups.google.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1194-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199026 Ubuntu Security Notification for Go Vulnerability (USN-5725-1)
  • 199493 Ubuntu Security Notification for Go Vulnerability (USN-5725-2)
  • 239198 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.23 (RHSA-2021:0956)
  • 239200 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.34 packages and (RHSA-2021:0713)
  • 239226 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.37 (RHSA-2021:1016)
  • 239272 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.9 packages and (RHSA-2021:1366)
  • 239381 Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.13 packages and (RHSA-2021:2122)
  • 377556 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for go-toolset:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0069)
  • 500976 Alpine Linux Security Update for go
  • 501567 Alpine Linux Security Update for go
  • 6140202 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for golang (GHSA-h382-mj64-43m3)
  • 670942 EulerOS Security Update for golang (EulerOS-SA-2021-1073)
  • 690507 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for go (bc7aff8c-d806-11ea-a5aa-0800272260e5)
  • 770039 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.1 Package Security Update (RHSA-2020:4297)
  • 770040 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.20 Packages and Security Update (RHSA-2020:5119)
  • 770041 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.6 Security Update (RHSA-2020:5159)
  • 770052 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.34 Packages and Security Update (RHSA-2021:0713)
  • 770053 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.23 Security Update (RHSA-2021:0956)
  • 770056 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.37 Security Update (RHSA-2021:1016)
  • 770058 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.9 Packages and Security Update (RHSA-2021:1366)
  • 770063 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.13 Packages and Security Update (RHSA-2021:2122)
  • 770076 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021:0172)
  • 770091 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 Security Update (RHSA-2021-1366)
  • 770093 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 Security Update (RHSA-2021-0713)
  • 770096 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 Security Update (RHSA-2021-2122)
  • 770113 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 Security Update (RHSA-2021-1016)
  • 770116 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021-0172)
  • 770118 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021-0956)
  • 900261 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for golang 1.13.11
  • 903465 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for golang (1877)
  • 907778 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for golang (1877-1)
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