CVE-2018-16875
The crypto/x509 package of Go before 1.10.6 and 1.11.x before 1.11.3 does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients are affected.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
137 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
The crypto/x509 package of Go before 1.10.6 and 1.11.x before 1.11.3 does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients are affected.
The crypto/x509 package does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients verifying certificates are affected.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00044.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00010.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106230
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16875
- https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#%21topic/golang-announce/Kw31K8G7Fi0
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-09
- https://go.dev/cl/154105
- https://go.dev/issue/29233
- https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/770130659b6fb2acf271476579a3644e093dda7f
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Kw31K8G7Fi0