Name: CVE-2020-16845: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-16845, CWE-835, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00193

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade go	Oct 13, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Amazon Linux Ami 2	—	Upgrade golang-docsUpgrade golang-testsUpgrade golang-binUpgrade golangUpgrade golang-raceUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade golang-misc	Oct 2, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Amazon_linux	—	Upgrade golang	Oct 28, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Centos_linux	—	Upgrade golang-binUpgrade delve-debugsourceUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade delveUpgrade golang-raceUpgrade delve-debuginfoUpgrade golangUpgrade go-toolsetUpgrade golang-docsUpgrade golang-testsUpgrade golang-misc	Sep 9, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Debian	—	Upgrade golang-1.15	Nov 23, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Freebsd	—	Upgrade go	Aug 7, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3	—	Upgrade golangUpgrade golang-binUpgrade golang-src	Jan 20, 2021	Aug 6, 2020
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5	—	Upgrade golangUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade golang-bin	Nov 2, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8	—	Upgrade golang-binUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade golang	Aug 31, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Oracle_linux	—	Upgrade golangUpgrade kubeletUpgrade docker-engineUpgrade kata-imageUpgrade kubernetes-cniUpgrade cri-toolsUpgrade istio-pilot-agentUpgrade istio-galleyUpgrade olcne-istio-chartUpgrade kataUpgrade golang-raceUpgrade kubectlUpgrade istio-citadelUpgrade olcne-api-serverUpgrade prometheusUpgrade golang-miscUpgrade olcne-nginxUpgrade docker-cliUpgrade istio-mixcUpgrade golang-testsUpgrade etcdUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade kata-agentUpgrade golang-binUpgrade istio-mixsUpgrade olcne-agentUpgrade conmonUpgrade helmUpgrade kubernetes-dashboardUpgrade kubeadmUpgrade kata-proxyUpgrade olcnectlUpgrade grafanaUpgrade cri-oUpgrade corednsUpgrade kata-ksm-throttlerUpgrade istio-sidecar-injectorUpgrade istio-istioctlUpgrade olcne-prometheus-chartUpgrade kubeadm-ha-setupUpgrade istio-pilot-discoveryUpgrade golang-docsUpgrade kata-runtimeUpgrade istioUpgrade olcne-utilsUpgrade kubernetes-cni-pluginsUpgrade yqUpgrade kata-shimUpgrade istio-proxy-initUpgrade delveUpgrade go-toolsetUpgrade istio-node-agentUpgrade flannel	Aug 25, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Redhat Openshift	—	Upgrade buildahUpgrade openshift-eventrouterUpgrade podmanUpgrade atomic-openshift-service-idlerUpgrade containernetworking-pluginsUpgrade apbUpgrade runcUpgrade jenkins-2-pluginsUpgrade skopeoUpgrade openshiftUpgrade golang-github-prometheus-promuUpgrade atomic-enterprise-service-catalogUpgrade ignitionUpgrade redhat-release-coreosUpgrade faqUpgrade kubefed-clientUpgrade cri-toolsUpgrade openshift-clientsUpgrade machine-config-daemonUpgrade cri-o	Dec 29, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Redhat_linux	—	Upgrade delve-debugsourceUpgrade golang-docsUpgrade delveUpgrade golang-binUpgrade golang-testsNo solution existsUpgrade delve-debuginfoUpgrade golang-raceUpgrade go-toolsetUpgrade golangUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade golang-misc	Sep 9, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Suse	—	Upgrade go1.14Upgrade go1.13-raceUpgrade go1.14-raceUpgrade go1.14-docUpgrade go1.13-docUpgrade go1.13	Aug 11, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade golang-1.13 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade golang-1.13-src (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade golang-1.13Upgrade golang-1.13-srcUpgrade golang-1.13-goUpgrade golang-1.13-go (Ubuntu Pro)	Nov 15, 2022	Aug 6, 2020
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Aug 6, 2020

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