| Name | CVE-2018-16875 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| golang (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2:1.3.3-1+deb8u5 | vulnerable |
| golang-1.11 (PTS) | buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.11.6-1+deb10u7 | fixed |
| golang-1.7 (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.7.4-2+deb9u5 | vulnerable |
| golang-1.8 (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.8.1-1+deb9u5 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - golang-1.8 <ignored> (Minor issue, DoS, requires rebuilding affected go-based packages)
[stretch] - golang-1.7 <ignored> (Minor issue, DoS, requires rebuilding affected go-based packages)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29233
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/df523969435b8945d939c7e2a849b50910ef4c25 (1.11.3)
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0a4a37f1f0a36e55d8ae5c34210a79499f9f2a9d (1.10.6)
[jessie] - golang <ignored> (Minor issue, DoS, requires rebuilding affected go-based packages)