SB2020083132 - Fedora 32 update for golang

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SB2020083132 - Fedora 32 update for golang

Published: August 31, 2020 Updated: April 25, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2020083132
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14040)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.


2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-16845)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in "ReadUvarint" and "ReadVarint" in "encoding/binary". A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References