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 0.04861

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 golangUpgrade golang-miscUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade golang-raceUpgrade golang-docsUpgrade golang-binUpgrade golang-tests	Oct 2, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Amazon_linux	—	Upgrade golang	Oct 28, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Centos_linux	—	Upgrade golang-raceUpgrade delveUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade golang-binUpgrade delve-debugsourceUpgrade delve-debuginfoUpgrade go-toolsetUpgrade golang-miscUpgrade golangUpgrade golang-docsUpgrade golang-tests	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-srcUpgrade golang-bin	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 golangUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade golang-bin	Aug 31, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Oracle_linux	—	Upgrade corednsUpgrade kata-ksm-throttlerUpgrade kata-shimUpgrade kubernetes-cni-pluginsUpgrade kata-runtimeUpgrade cri-oUpgrade kubeadm-ha-setupUpgrade istioUpgrade istio-sidecar-injectorUpgrade olcne-utilsUpgrade istio-pilot-discoveryUpgrade grafanaUpgrade golang-docsUpgrade olcne-prometheus-chartUpgrade istio-istioctlUpgrade olcnectlUpgrade istio-proxy-initUpgrade yqUpgrade delveUpgrade flannelUpgrade go-toolsetUpgrade istio-node-agentUpgrade golang-srcUpgrade docker-engineUpgrade prometheusUpgrade olcne-nginxUpgrade olcne-istio-chartUpgrade kubernetes-cniUpgrade kubectlUpgrade kata-imageUpgrade kataUpgrade istio-galleyUpgrade golang-testsUpgrade istio-citadelUpgrade golang-raceUpgrade kubeletUpgrade cri-toolsUpgrade istio-pilot-agentUpgrade golangUpgrade kata-proxyUpgrade kubeadmUpgrade kubernetes-dashboardUpgrade olcne-agentUpgrade kata-agentUpgrade istio-mixsUpgrade etcdUpgrade docker-cliUpgrade golang-miscUpgrade helmUpgrade istio-mixcUpgrade olcne-api-serverUpgrade golang-binUpgrade conmon	Aug 25, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Redhat Openshift	—	Upgrade skopeoUpgrade containernetworking-pluginsUpgrade openshift-eventrouterUpgrade podmanUpgrade apbUpgrade runcUpgrade atomic-openshift-service-idlerUpgrade jenkins-2-pluginsUpgrade buildahUpgrade ignitionUpgrade faqUpgrade redhat-release-coreosUpgrade openshiftUpgrade golang-github-prometheus-promuUpgrade atomic-enterprise-service-catalogUpgrade openshift-clientsUpgrade kubefed-clientUpgrade machine-config-daemonUpgrade cri-toolsUpgrade cri-o	Dec 29, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Redhat_linux	—	No solution existsUpgrade delve-debugsourceUpgrade golang-binUpgrade golang-testsUpgrade delveUpgrade golang-docsUpgrade golang-miscUpgrade delve-debuginfoUpgrade go-toolsetUpgrade golang-raceUpgrade golangUpgrade golang-src	Sep 9, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Suse	—	Upgrade go1.13-raceUpgrade go1.14Upgrade go1.14-raceUpgrade go1.14-docUpgrade go1.13-docUpgrade go1.13	Aug 11, 2020	Aug 6, 2020
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade golang-1.13-goUpgrade golang-1.13-src (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade golang-1.13-go (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade golang-1.13Upgrade golang-1.13-srcUpgrade golang-1.13 (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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