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High RHSA-2020:5055 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: buildah security update

Published Sep 30, 2024 · Updated Oct 14, 2026

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · Rhel Extras Other 7 rhel_extras_other:7 buildah 0:1.11.6-12.el7_9
Red Hat · Rhel Extras Other 7 rhel_extras_other:7 buildah-debuginfo 0:1.11.6-12.el7_9

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    golang.org/x/text Infinite loop

    The x/text package before 0.3.3 for Go has a vulnerability in encoding/unicode that could lead to the UTF-16 decoder entering an infinite loop, causing the program to crash or run out of memory. An attacker could provide a single byte to a UTF16 decoder insta…

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853652
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2020/rhsa-2020_5055.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14040
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14040
  • article
    https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39491
  • article
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/bXVeAmGOqz0