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CVE-2022-30631

Stack exhaustion when reading certain archives in compress/gzip

Published: Aug 9, 2022Updated: Oct 20, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-674
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.9%
Top 21.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Uncontrolled recursion in Reader.Read in compress/gzip before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via an archive containing a large number of concatenated 0-length compressed files.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-674

Affected Products

Red Hat Inc.
commercial·USaka red hat
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
OpenShift Container PlatformOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat OpenStack PlatformOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Web TerminalOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Self Node RemediationOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Node Maintenance OperatorOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Service Telemetry FrameworkOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Application InterconnectOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Go standard library
oss-project·USaka net/http, crypto/x509, golang standard library, html/template
compress/gzipLibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
Debian GNU/LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Fedora Project
oss-project·USaka fedora
FedoraOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
The Go Project
oss-projectaka golang-google-protobuf, go, crypto
Go
OSS Libraries
golang
oss-project·US
go
OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://go.dev/cl/417067
go.dev
https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/b2b8872c876201eac2d0707276c6999ff3eb185e
go.googlesource.com
https://go.dev/issue/53168
go.dev
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