Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-16845: go ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/06/2020
10/14/2020
10/13/2020
04/25/2022
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-go
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