Candidate: CVE-2020-16845
PublicDate: 2020-08-06 18:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16845
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/_ulYYcIWg3Q
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/NyPIaucMgXo
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> Packages built using golang need to be rebuilt once the
 mdeslaur> vulnerability has been fixed. This CVE entry does not
 mdeslaur> list packages that need rebuilding outside of the main
 mdeslaur> repository or the Ubuntu variants with PPA overlays.
Mitigation:
Bugs:
 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40618
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Diederik Loerakker, Jonny Rhea, Raúl Kripalani, and Preston Van Loon
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_golang:
upstream_golang: released (1.13.15, 1.14.7)
precise/esm_golang: DNE
trusty_golang: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_golang: DNE
xenial_golang: DNE
bionic_golang: DNE
focal_golang: DNE
groovy_golang: DNE
hirsute_golang: DNE
impish_golang: DNE
jammy_golang: DNE
devel_golang: DNE

Patches_golang-1.6:
upstream_golang-1.6: needs-triage
precise/esm_golang-1.6: DNE
trusty_golang-1.6: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_golang-1.6: DNE
xenial_golang-1.6: ignored (end of standard support, was needs-triage)
esm-infra/xenial_golang-1.6: needs-triage
bionic_golang-1.6: DNE
focal_golang-1.6: DNE
groovy_golang-1.6: DNE
hirsute_golang-1.6: DNE
impish_golang-1.6: DNE
jammy_golang-1.6: DNE
devel_golang-1.6: DNE

Patches_golang-1.8:
upstream_golang-1.8: needs-triage
precise/esm_golang-1.8: DNE
trusty_golang-1.8: DNE
trusty/esm_golang-1.8: DNE
xenial_golang-1.8: DNE
bionic_golang-1.8: needed
focal_golang-1.8: DNE
groovy_golang-1.8: DNE
hirsute_golang-1.8: DNE
impish_golang-1.8: DNE
jammy_golang-1.8: DNE
devel_golang-1.8: DNE

Patches_golang-1.9:
upstream_golang-1.9: needs-triage
precise/esm_golang-1.9: DNE
trusty_golang-1.9: DNE
trusty/esm_golang-1.9: DNE
xenial_golang-1.9: DNE
bionic_golang-1.9: needed
focal_golang-1.9: DNE
groovy_golang-1.9: DNE
hirsute_golang-1.9: DNE
impish_golang-1.9: DNE
jammy_golang-1.9: DNE
devel_golang-1.9: DNE

Patches_golang-1.10:
upstream_golang-1.10: needs-triage
precise/esm_golang-1.10: DNE
trusty_golang-1.10: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_golang-1.10: needs-triage
xenial_golang-1.10: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
esm-infra/xenial_golang-1.10: needs-triage
bionic_golang-1.10: needed
focal_golang-1.10: DNE
groovy_golang-1.10: DNE
hirsute_golang-1.10: DNE
impish_golang-1.10: DNE
jammy_golang-1.10: DNE
devel_golang-1.10: DNE

Patches_golang-1.13:
 upstream: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/ec5b63a6a2b6205cc204e9ce856e7517a1b989d2
upstream_golang-1.13: released (1.13.15, 1.14.7)
precise/esm_golang-1.13: DNE
trusty_golang-1.13: DNE
trusty/esm_golang-1.13: DNE
xenial_golang-1.13: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
bionic_golang-1.13: needed
focal_golang-1.13: needed
groovy_golang-1.13: ignored (reached end-of-life)
hirsute_golang-1.13: ignored (reached end-of-life)
impish_golang-1.13: needed
jammy_golang-1.13: needed
devel_golang-1.13: needed

Patches_golang-1.14:
 upstream: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/51bb041f7cf17c5e8e10a7307521625437687b04
upstream_golang-1.14: released (1.13.15, 1.14.7)
precise/esm_golang-1.14: DNE
trusty_golang-1.14: DNE
trusty/esm_golang-1.14: DNE
xenial_golang-1.14: DNE
bionic_golang-1.14: DNE
focal_golang-1.14: needed
groovy_golang-1.14: released (1.14.7-2ubuntu1)
hirsute_golang-1.14: released (1.14.7-2ubuntu1)
impish_golang-1.14: DNE
jammy_golang-1.14: DNE
devel_golang-1.14: DNE

Patches_golang-1.15:
 upstream: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/027d7241ce050d197e7fabea3d541ffbe3487258
upstream_golang-1.15: released (1.13.15, 1.14.7)
precise/esm_golang-1.15: DNE
trusty_golang-1.15: DNE
trusty/esm_golang-1.15: DNE
xenial_golang-1.15: DNE
bionic_golang-1.15: DNE
focal_golang-1.15: DNE
groovy_golang-1.15: not-affected (1.15-2ubuntu1)
hirsute_golang-1.15: not-affected (1.15-2ubuntu1)
impish_golang-1.15: not-affected (1.15-2ubuntu1)