Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting containernetworking-plugins package, versions <0:0.8.6-2.rhaos4.5.el7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.01% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-CONTAINERNETWORKINGPLUGINS-5250132
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • 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 RHEL:7 containernetworking-plugins to version 0:0.8.6-2.rhaos4.5.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:0713.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream containernetworking-plugins package and not the containernetworking-plugins package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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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