USN-5873-1

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    USN-5873-1

    Published: 16 Feb 2023Last Modified: 27 Apr 2026

    Summary: golang-golang-x-text, golang-x-text vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that Go Text incorrectly handled certain encodings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14040) It was discovered that Go Text incorrectly handled certain BCP 47 language tags. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852 and CVE-2021-38561 affected only Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852, CVE-2021-38561, CVE-2022-32149)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5873-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14040, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28851, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28852, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-38561, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-32149

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: golang-x-text

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1

    Affected versions

    0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu1
    0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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