Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-14040 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in multiple products

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

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