SB2021110826 - Denial of service in Go programming language
Published: November 8, 2021 Updated: August 4, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021110826
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41772)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in archive/zip Reader.Open. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted ZIP archive containing an invalid name or an empty filename field to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/0fM21h43arc
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211210-0003/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OFS3M3OFB24SWPTIAPARKGPUMQVUY6Z/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ON7BQRRJZBOR5TJHURBAB3WLF4YXFC6Z/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02