Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5873-1
February 16, 2023
golang-golang-x-text, golang-x-text vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 22.10
– Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in Go Text.
Software Description:
– 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 LTS:
golang-golang-x-text-dev 0.3.7-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
golang-golang-x-text-dev 0.3.2-4ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
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:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5873-1
CVE-2020-14040, CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852, CVE-2021-38561,
CVE-2022-32149
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-golang-x-text/0.3.7-1ubuntu0.22.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-golang-x-text/0.3.7-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-golang-x-text/0.3.2-4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-x-text/0.0~git20170627.0.6353ef0-1ubuntu2.1
