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Ubuntu: USN-5873-1 (CVE-2020-28851): Go Text vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 2, 2021
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In x/text in Go 1.15.4, an "index out of range" panic occurs in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing the -u- extension. (x/text/language is supposed to be able to parse an HTTP Accept-Language header.)

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-golang-golang-x-text-devubuntu-upgrade-golang-x-text-dev
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