CVE-2020-14040

Name	CVE-2020-14040
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium
Debian Bugs	964271, 964272

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
golang-golang-x-text (PTS)	bullseye, sid	0.3.6-1	fixed
golang-x-text (PTS)	stretch	0.0~git20161013.0.c745997-2	vulnerable
	buster	0.3.0-2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
golang-golang-x-text	source	(unstable)	0.3.3-1			964272
golang-x-text	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			964271

Notes

[buster] - golang-x-text <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - golang-x-text <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39491
https://go.googlesource.com/text/+/23ae387dee1f90d29a23c0e87ee0b46038fbed0e
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/bXVeAmGOqz0