GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-5rcv-m4m3-hfh7 golang.org/x/text Infinite loop

MEDIUM Published 2021-05-18 Modified 2024-05-20 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2020-14040
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
golang.org/x/text
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-835
Reviewed
2021-05-12

Affected packages

• Go golang.org/x/text: < 0.3.3 → fixed in 0.3.3

Description

Go version v0.3.3 of the x/text package fixes 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. Specific Go Packages Affected golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode golang.org/x/text/transform

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References