CVE-2024-34155
Go vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-34155 was discovered in the Go programming language's parser package. The issue affects Go versions prior to 1.22.7 and versions from 1.23.0-0 before 1.23.1. The vulnerability was disclosed on September 6, 2024, and involves a potential panic due to stack exhaustion when parsing Go source code containing deeply nested literals (Go Vuln DB, CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the Parse functions of the go/parser package. When these functions are called on Go source code that contains deeply nested literals, they can trigger a panic condition due to stack exhaustion. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L (NetApp Advisory).

Impact

The successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. When triggered, the vulnerability causes the affected application to panic, potentially disrupting service availability (NetApp Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in Go versions 1.22.7 and 1.23.1. Users are advised to upgrade to these or later versions to mitigate the issue. The fix was released on September 5, 2024, as part of minor point releases (Golang Dev).

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