Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation Affecting golang-docs package, versions <0:1.17.12-1.el9_0


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-GOLANGDOCS-3552179
  • published15 Jul 2022
  • disclosed12 Jul 2022

Introduced: 12 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-1962  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1325  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 golang-docs to version 0:1.17.12-1.el9_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:5799.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Uncontrolled recursion in the Parse functions in go/parser before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allow an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via deeply nested types or declarations.

CVSS Scores

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