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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29509: Other

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29509: Other

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/14/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

The encoding/xml package in Go (all versions) does not correctly preserve the semantics of attribute namespace prefixes during tokenization round-trips, which allows an attacker to craft inputs that behave in conflicting ways during different stages of processing in affected downstream applications.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-go

References

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