USN-5873-1: Go Text vulnerabilities

Packages

golang-golang-x-text - Supplementary Go text-related libraries
golang-x-text - Supplementary Go text-related libraries

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)

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)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
22.10 kinetic	golang-golang-x-text-dev – 0.3.7-1ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 jammy	golang-golang-x-text-dev – 0.3.7-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
20.04 focal	golang-golang-x-text-dev – 0.3.2-4ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic	golang-golang-x-text-dev – 0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1
18.04 bionic	golang-x-text-dev – 0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1

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