Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting golang-1.8 package, versions <1.8.1-1+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.52% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-GOLANG18-275326
  • published24 Jan 2019
  • disclosed24 Jan 2019

Introduced: 24 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 golang-1.8 to version 1.8.1-1+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.8 package and not the golang-1.8 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 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.