USN-5873-1: Go Text vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

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)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10

• golang-golang-x-text-dev - 0.3.7-1ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04

• golang-golang-x-text-dev - 0.3.7-1ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• golang-golang-x-text-dev - 0.3.2-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• golang-golang-x-text-dev - 0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1
• golang-x-text-dev - 0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1

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

References

• CVE-2020-14040
• CVE-2020-28852
• CVE-2020-28851
• CVE-2022-32149
• CVE-2021-38561