GHSA-ppp9-7jff-5vj2

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    GHSA-ppp9-7jff-5vj2

    Published: 26 Dec 2022Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: golang.org/x/text/language Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38561, https://deps.dev/advisory/OSV/GO-2021-0113, https://go.dev/cl/340830, https://go.googlesource.com/text/+/383b2e75a7a4198c42f8f87833eefb772868a56f, https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce, https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/text/language, https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0113

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: golang.org/x/text

    Purl: pkg:golang/golang.org/x/text

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.3.7

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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