CVE-2020-16845 (GCVE-0-2020-16845)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-06 17:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:45
VLAI
Summary
Go before 1.13.15 and 14.x before 1.14.7 can have an infinite read loop in ReadUvarint and ReadVarint in encoding/binary via invalid inputs.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-06-28T12:00:57+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2020-16845",
      "id": "CVE-2020-16845",
      "initial_release_date": "2020-08-06T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "681",
      "product_status:known_affected": "212",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1218",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2020/cve-2020-16845.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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