golang: internal/syscall/unix: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root

A flaw was found in the internal/syscall/unix package in the Go standard library. If the target of the Root.Chmod function is replaced with a symbolic link during execution, specifically after Root.Chmod checks the target but before acting, the chmod operation will be performed on the file the...

cmd/go: cmd/go: Arbitrary file write via malicious pkg-config directive

A flaw was found in cmd/go. An attacker can exploit this by building a malicious Go source file that uses the 'cgo pkg-config:' directive. This allows the attacker to write to an arbitrary file with partial control over its content, by providing a '--log-file' argument to the pkg-config command...

golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm

A flaw was found in Go's crypto/x509 standard library package. Verifying a certificate chain that contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm will cause a Certificate.Verify to panic. This issue affects all crypto/tls clients and servers that set Config.ClientAuth to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14040

The x/text package before 0.3.3 for Go has a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that could lead to the UTF-16 decoder entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory. An attacker could provide a single byte to a UTF16 decoder instantiated with UseBOM or ExpectBOM to...