CVE-2024-34156 (GCVE-0-2024-34156)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-06 20:42 – Updated: 2024-09-26 15:03
VLAI
Title
Stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode in encoding/gob
Summary
Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion. This is a follow-up to CVE-2022-30635.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-09 14:04 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library encoding/gob Affected: 0 , < 1.22.7 (semver)
Affected: 1.23.0-0 , < 1.23.1 (semver)
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go_standard_library encoding\/gob Affected: 0 , < 1.22.7 (semver)
Affected: 1.23.0-0 , < 1.23.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:go_standard_library:encoding\/gob:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Md Sakib Anwar of The Ohio State University (anwar.40@osu.edu)
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