Buffer Overflow Affecting std/crypto/elliptic package, versions >=1.6.0-0 <1.7.6>=1.8.0-0 <1.8.2
Threat Intelligence
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed1 Jul 2022
- creditVlad Krasnov, Filippo Valsorda
Introduced: 1 Jul 2022
CVE-2017-8932 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/crypto/elliptic to version 1.7.6, 1.8.2 or higher.
Overview
std/crypto/elliptic is a Go standard library package std/crypto/elliptic
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow.
Go Vulnerability Report:
via the ScalarMult process in the crypto/elliptic package on amd64 architectures. An attacker can recover secret scalar values by submitting specially crafted input points and analyzing the resulting output failures.