| Name | CVE-2022-23772 |
| Description | Rat.SetString in math/big in Go before 1.16.14 and 1.17.x before 1.17.7 has an overflow that can lead to Uncontrolled Memory Consumption. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2985-1, DLA-2986-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| golang-1.11 (PTS) | buster | 1.11.6-1+deb10u4 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 1.11.6-1+deb10u7 | vulnerable |
| golang-1.15 (PTS) | bullseye | 1.15.15-1~deb11u4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - golang-1.11 <ignored> (Limited support, minor issue, DoS, code is different, importing Rat.SetString from 1.16 causes arm64-specific test suite failures)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50699
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/SUsQn0aSgPQ
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/539d430efb5043cc6a2d4d4fcd2866b11717039a (go1.17.7)