CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-14040

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-06-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• golang text (< 0.3.3) • fedoraproject fedora 32

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References