CVE-2020-16845: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Go before 1.13.15 and 14.x before 1.14.7 can have an infinite read loop in ReadUvarint and ReadVarint in encoding/binary via invalid inputs.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only; version 32 only
• Golang Go: before 1.13.15 (fixed in 1.13.15); from 1.14, before 1.14.7 (fixed in 1.14.7)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2020-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.