CVE-2020-16845

high

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.

References

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/_ulYYcIWg3Q

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/NyPIaucMgXo

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00021.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00028.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KWRBAH4UZJO3RROQ72SYCUPFCJFA22FO/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6RCFJTMKHY5ICGEM5BUFUEDDGSPJ25XU/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TACQFZDPA7AUR6TRZBCX2RGRFSDYLI7O/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WV2VWKFTH4EJGZBZALVUJQJOAQB5MDQ4/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00030.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0002/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00037.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00038.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4848

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-08-06

Updated: 2021-06-14

Type: CWE-835

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH