ubuntu-cve-2020-14040
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2020-06-17 20:15
Modified
2025-10-24 04:48
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:48:32Z",
  "published": "2020-06-17T20:15:00Z",
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