CVE-2020-16845 (GCVE-0-2020-16845)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-06 17:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
15 references
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