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CVE-2023-24537

Infinite loop in parsing in go/scanner

Published: Apr 6, 2023Updated: Feb 12, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-190
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
1.4%
Top 31.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Calling any of the Parse functions on Go source code which contains //line directives with very large line numbers can cause an infinite loop due to integer overflow.

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-190

Affected Products

UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Ceph StorageRed Hat Inc.
On-premDatabase
Databases / cache-message-queue
openSUSE TumbleweedNovell Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat StorageRed Hat Inc.
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
red hat inc.commercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
novell inc.commercialUSOperating Systems
and 45 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Initial Access
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References

https://go.dev/cl/482078
go.dev
https://go.dev/issue/59180
go.dev
https://redos.red-soft.ru/support/secure/
redos.red-soft.ru
and 9 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Apr 6, 2023
Last Updated
Feb 12, 2025

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