| Name | CVE-2021-31525 |
| Description | net/http in Go before 1.15.12 and 1.16.x before 1.16.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse. Server, Transport, and Client can each be affected in some configurations. |
| 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-1.15 (PTS) | bullseye | 1.15.15-1~deb11u4 | fixed |
| golang-golang-x-net (PTS) | bullseye | 1:0.0+git20210119.5f4716e+dfsg-4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:0.7.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:0.27.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - golang-1.11 <postponed> (Limited support, minor issue, DoS)
[stretch] - golang-1.8 <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS, requires rebuilding reverse-dependencies)
[stretch] - golang-1.7 <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS, requires rebuilding reverse-dependencies)
[buster] - golang-golang-x-net-dev <postponed> (Limited support, minor issue, DoS)
[stretch] - golang-golang-x-net-dev <no-dsa> (Limited support in stretch)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45710
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45711 (1.15 backport)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45712 (1.16 backport)
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/net/+/313069
golang: introduced by https://github.com/golang/go/commit/ae080c1aecb129a3230e7afecdb4a16ad3da9b3c (go1.5beta1)
golang-golang-x-net: introduced by https://github.com/golang/net/commit/5916dcb167ed985a5b9e6871fbfd74848a4c170b