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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 17, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-14040

CVE-2020-14040

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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
golang.org/x/textGo
< 0.3.30.3.3

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