CVE-2020-16845

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.15%

Withdrawn Advisory: Infinite loop in xz

Published: 12/16/2021Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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.

Affected packages (4)

Bitnami/golangfrom 0, < 1.13.15, >= 1.14.0, < 1.14.7
Debian/golang-1.15from 0, < 1.15~rc2-1
Go/github.com/ulikunitz/xzfrom 0, < 0.5.8
Go/stdlibfrom 0, < 1.13.15, >= 1.14.0-0, < 1.14.7

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (30)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16845
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-16845
PATCHhttps://go.dev/cl/247120
PATCHhttps://go.googlesource.com/go/+/027d7241ce050d197e7fabea3d541ffbe3487258
REPORThttps://go.dev/issue/40618
WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00021.html
WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00028.html
WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00029.html
WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00030.html
WEBhttps://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/commit/69c6093c7b2397b923acf82cb378f55ab2652b9b
WEBhttps://github.com/ulikunitz/xz/issues/35
WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/NyPIaucMgXo
WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/_ulYYcIWg3Q
WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/NyPIaucMgXo
WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/_ulYYcIWg3Q
WEBhttps://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/NyPIaucMgXo
WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00037.html
WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00038.html
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6RCFJTMKHY5ICGEM5BUFUEDDGSPJ25XU/
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWRBAH4UZJO3RROQ72SYCUPFCJFA22FO/
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TACQFZDPA7AUR6TRZBCX2RGRFSDYLI7O/
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WV2VWKFTH4EJGZBZALVUJQJOAQB5MDQ4/
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6RCFJTMKHY5ICGEM5BUFUEDDGSPJ25XU
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KWRBAH4UZJO3RROQ72SYCUPFCJFA22FO
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TACQFZDPA7AUR6TRZBCX2RGRFSDYLI7O
WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WV2VWKFTH4EJGZBZALVUJQJOAQB5MDQ4
WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0002
WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200924-0002/
WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4848
WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html