CVE-2018-16875

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-20: CWE-20

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106230
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-09
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16875
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#%21topic/golang-announce/Kw31K8G7Fi0
• 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

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106230
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-09
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16875
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#%21topic/golang-announce/Kw31K8G7Fi0
• 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

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