Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting golang-1.10 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.52% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GOLANG110-337286
  • 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?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:14.04 golang-1.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.10 package and not the golang-1.10 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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.