Resource exhaustion in Go programming language - CVE-2025-61724
Published: November 7, 2025
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists in net/textproto due to the Reader.ReadResponse function constructs a response string through repeated string concatenation of lines. A remote attacker can trigger excessive CPU consumption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Development Tools Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Anolis OS
Engineering Lifecycle Management
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC)
watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - UAB Component
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
IBM Business Automation Workflow
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Splunk Enterprise
golang-devel
golang-help
golang
go1.24
go1.24-doc
go1.24-race
go1.24-openssl-race
go1.24-openssl-doc
go1.24-openssl
go1.24-openssl-debuginfo
go1.25-openssl-doc
go1.25-openssl
go1.25-openssl-debuginfo
go1.25-openssl-race
git-lfs-doc
git-lfs
How to mitigate CVE-2025-61724
Engineering Lifecycle Management - update to 1.3.0
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC) - update to 3.8.5
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.3.1 Patch 2
watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - UAB Component - update to 5.2.2
Splunk Enterprise - addressed in versions 9.2.12, 9.3.9, 9.3.10, 9.4.8, 9.4.9, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.2.1
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions - update to 9.3.1
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - update to 12.19.0
IBM Business Automation Workflow - addressed in versions 24.0.0-IF008, 24.0.1-IF006, 25.0.0-IF003
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 24.0.0-IF008, 24.0.1-IF006, 25.0.0-IF004
golang-devel - addressed in versions 1.15.7-55, 1.17.3-43, 1.21.4-38
golang-help - addressed in versions 1.15.7-55, 1.17.3-43, 1.21.4-38
golang - addressed in versions 1.15.7-55, 1.17.3-43, 1.21.4-38
go1.24 - update to 1.24.9-150000.1.42.1
go1.24-doc - update to 1.24.9-150000.1.42.1
go1.24-race - update to 1.24.9-150000.1.42.1
go1.24-openssl-race - addressed in versions 1.24.12-150000.1.18.1, 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.24-openssl-doc - addressed in versions 1.24.12-150000.1.18.1, 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.24-openssl - addressed in versions 1.24.12-150000.1.18.1, 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.24-openssl-debuginfo - update to 1.24.12-150600.13.15.1
go1.25-openssl-doc - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
go1.25-openssl - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
go1.25-openssl-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
go1.25-openssl-race - addressed in versions 1.25.6-150000.1.9.1, 1.25.6-150600.13.9.1
git-lfs-doc - update to 3.7.1-2
git-lfs - update to 3.7.1-2
External References
Related Security Bulletins
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- openEuler 20.03 LTS SP4 update for golang
- openEuler 24.03 LTS SP2 update for golang
- openEuler 24.03 LTS SP1 update for golang
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- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions
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- SUSE update for go1.25-openssl
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- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - UAB Component
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Workflow
- Splunk Enterprise Security update for third-party components
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management on Hybrid Cloud
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- Multiple vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
- IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge update for net/textproto