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Bug 728510 (CVE-2020-14040) - [Tracker] golang.org/x/text: Denial of service via malicious string (CVE-2020-14040)
Summary: [Tracker] golang.org/x/text: Denial of service via malicious string (CVE-2020...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: CVE-2020-14040
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3...
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Reported: 2020-06-17 00:06 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2021-01-28 03:11 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-06-17 00:06:11 UTC
"Hello gophers,

Version v0.3.3 of golang.org/x/text fixes a vulnerability in the golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode package which 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.

transform.String has also been hardened not to enter an infinite loop if a Transformer keeps returning ErrShortSrc even if atEOF is true.

This issue was first filed as Issue 39491 by GitHub user abacabadabacaba and reported to the security team by Anton Gyllenberg. It is tracked as CVE-2020-14040.

Cheers,
Katie for the Go team"
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-06-17 00:07:04 UTC
We need to see if any packages we carry bundle/vendor a vulnerable version of this package. We do not seem to have it directly in tree.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-06-17 00:09:59 UTC
Advisory URL: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/golang-announce/bXVeAmGOqz0/Y_caUbuWAwAJ

Bug URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39491

We can look at references on Github to that bug which should help us track some of these down.