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Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package golang.src  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-GOLANGSRC-14924256
  • published14 Jan 2026
  • disclosed17 Jun 2020
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Introduced: 17 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-14040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang.src package and not the golang.src package as distributed by RHEL.

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.