CVE-2024-8244

Name	CVE-2024-8244
Description	The filepath.Walk and filepath.WalkDir functions are documented as not following symbolic links, but both functions are susceptible to a TOCTOU (time of check/time of use) race condition where a portion of the path being walked is replaced with a symbolic link while the walk is in progress.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1110945, 1110946

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	vulnerable
golang-1.19 (PTS)	bookworm	1.19.8-2	vulnerable
golang-1.24 (PTS)	trixie	1.24.4-1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	1.24.9-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Debian Bugs
golang-1.15	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)
golang-1.19	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)
golang-1.23	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	1110946
golang-1.24	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	1110945

Notes

[trixie] - golang-1.24 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - golang-1.19 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - golang-1.15 <postponed> (Limited support, minor issue, follow bookworm DSAs/point-releases)
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/70007