Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting go package, versions <1.17.6-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE316-GO-2844143
  • published20 Mar 2022
  • disclosed1 Jan 2022

Introduced: 1 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-44717  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-404  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 go to version 1.17.6-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream go package and not the go package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.

Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.

CVSS Scores

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