Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5873-1: Critical Go Text Service Disruption

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February 16, 2023

Several security issues were fixed in Go Text.

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)

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu service disruption Go Text

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.