| Name | CVE-2020-16845 |
| Description | 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. |
| 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) |
| References | DLA-2459-1, DLA-2460-1, DSA-4848-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| golang-1.11 (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 1.11.6-1+deb10u4 | fixed |
| golang-1.15 (PTS) | bullseye | 1.15.15-1~deb11u4 | fixed |
| golang-1.7 (PTS) | stretch | 1.7.4-2+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 1.7.4-2+deb9u5 | fixed |
| golang-1.8 (PTS) | stretch | 1.8.1-1+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 1.8.1-1+deb9u5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/NyPIaucMgXo
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40618
Fixed in 1.15~rc2, 1.14.7, 1.13.15