Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting golang-docs package, versions <0:1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1
Threat Intelligence
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- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed24 Jan 2019
Introduced: 24 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-6486 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 golang-docs to version 0:1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1172.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-docs package and not the golang-docs package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740
- https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6486
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380
- https://github.com/google/wycheproof
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw