Improper Validation of Array Index The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package golang.src  (opens in a new tab)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-14925156
  • published14 Jan 2026
  • disclosed1 Jan 2020

Introduced: 1 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-28851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (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.

In x/text in Go 1.15.4, an "index out of range" panic occurs in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing the -u- extension. (x/text/language is supposed to be able to parse an HTTP Accept-Language header.)