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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14040
The 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, causin...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
The 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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
golang-golang-x-text
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.3.3-1"}]}]
Debian:13
golang-golang-x-text
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.3.3-1"}]}]
Debian:14
golang-golang-x-text
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.3.3-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org