Improper Input Validation Affecting golang package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.71% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GOLANG-5111168
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Jan 2019

Introduced: 24 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 golang.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang package and not the golang package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.