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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-14040: Moderate: container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4694)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-14040: Moderate: container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4694)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/17/2020
Created
05/14/2022
Added
05/13/2022
Modified
07/22/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libslirp
  • alma-upgrade-libslirp-devel
  • alma-upgrade-python-podman-api

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