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Ubuntu: USN-5873-1 (CVE-2021-38561): Go Text vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5873-1 (CVE-2021-38561): Go Text vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/26/2022
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-golang-golang-x-text-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-golang-x-text-dev

References

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