Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting golang-1.18 package, versions <1.18.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GOLANG118-2950230
  • published15 Jul 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2022

Introduced: 15 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-1962  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 golang-1.18 to version 1.18.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.18 package and not the golang-1.18 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 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 Base Scores

version 3.1