Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting golang-1.11 package, versions <1.11.6-1+deb10u4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-GOLANG111-597558
  • published7 Aug 2020
  • disclosed6 Aug 2020

Introduced: 6 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-16845  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 golang-1.11 to version 1.11.6-1+deb10u4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.11 package and not the golang-1.11 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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