🛡️ USN-5873-1 — golang-golang-x-text

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

golang-golang-x-text, golang-x-text vulnerabilities

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)

Affected software

USN-5873-1 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • golang-golang-x-text (fixed in 0.3.7-1ubuntu0.20.04.1)
  • golang-x-text (fixed in 0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 February 2023 and last revised on 27 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Report)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-02-16
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-27
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
golang-golang-x-text — 0.3.7-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
golang-x-text — 0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1

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