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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-38561: golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-38561: golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/26/2022
Created
08/21/2023
Added
08/21/2023
Modified
11/14/2023

Description

golang.org/x/text/language in golang.org/x/text before 0.3.7 can panic with an out-of-bounds read during BCP 47 language tag parsing. Index calculation is mishandled. If parsing untrusted user input, this can be used as a vector for a denial-of-service attack.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-o
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-haproxy
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-kernel-rt
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift

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