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Red Hat: CVE-2020-14040: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-14040: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/17/2020
Created
09/10/2020
Added
09/09/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-buildah
  • redhat-upgrade-buildah-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-buildah-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-buildah-tests
  • redhat-upgrade-buildah-tests-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-cockpit-podman
  • redhat-upgrade-conmon
  • redhat-upgrade-container-selinux
  • redhat-upgrade-containernetworking-plugins
  • redhat-upgrade-containernetworking-plugins-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-containernetworking-plugins-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-containers-common
  • redhat-upgrade-crit
  • redhat-upgrade-criu
  • redhat-upgrade-criu-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-criu-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-crun
  • redhat-upgrade-crun-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-crun-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-delve
  • redhat-upgrade-delve-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-delve-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-fuse-overlayfs
  • redhat-upgrade-fuse-overlayfs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-fuse-overlayfs-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-go-toolset
  • redhat-upgrade-golang
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-bin
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-misc
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-race
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-src
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-tests
  • redhat-upgrade-libslirp
  • redhat-upgrade-libslirp-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libslirp-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-libslirp-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-oci-seccomp-bpf-hook
  • redhat-upgrade-oci-seccomp-bpf-hook-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-oci-seccomp-bpf-hook-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-podman
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-catatonit
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-catatonit-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-docker
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-remote
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-remote-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-tests
  • redhat-upgrade-python-podman-api
  • redhat-upgrade-python3-criu
  • redhat-upgrade-runc
  • redhat-upgrade-runc-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-runc-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-skopeo
  • redhat-upgrade-skopeo-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-skopeo-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-skopeo-tests
  • redhat-upgrade-slirp4netns
  • redhat-upgrade-slirp4netns-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-slirp4netns-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-toolbox
  • redhat-upgrade-udica

References

  • CVE-2020-14040
  • RHSA-2020:3665
  • RHSA-2020:4694

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