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GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm

Bird-lg-go has a Fatal Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service via Unbounded JSON Decoding

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-45047

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go < 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e

Details

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### Summary The `apiHandler` (and similarly `webHandlerTelegramBot`) processes user-provided JSON payloads by directly using `json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&request)` without restricting the maximum read size. An unauthenticated remote attacker can stream an extremely large, endless JSON payload (e.g., several Gigabytes of padding) over a single TCP connection. Because Go's JSON decoder attempts to allocate memory for the entire parsed structure, this rapidly exhausts the host's physical RAM or container limits, leading to an unrecoverable `fatal error: runtime: out of memory`. This causes the Linux OOM Killer to instantly terminate the entire `bird-lg-go` daemon, resulting in a severe Remote Denial of Service (RDoS). ### Details In `api.go`: ```go func apiHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { var request apiRequest // VULNERABILITY: No http.MaxBytesReader protection before JSON decode err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&request) // ...

References

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