CVE-2020-14040

CVE-2020-14040 affects golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode and golang.org/x/text/transform in the x/text package for Go, with a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that can cause the UTF-16 decoder to enter an infinite loop, potentially crashing or exhausting memory when a single byte is supplied to...

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...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

github.com/golang/text is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The attack is possible because it does not properly handle the single-byte UTF-16 inputs passing to a UTF-16 decoder, causing an infinite loop if the return value from transformer is ErrShortSrc with atEOF true...

PSF-2012-6 Vulnerability in the utf-16 decoder after error handling

The utf-16 decoder in Python 3.1 through 3.3 does not update the alignedend variable after calling the unicodedecodecallerrorhandler function, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information process memory or cause a denial of service memory corruption and crash via unspecified...