GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm
Bird-lg-go has a Fatal Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service via Unbounded JSON Decoding
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go | < 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e | 0.0.0-20260507060110-0ff87024cb9e |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### 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
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go/security/advisories/GHSA-39qr-rc93-vhqm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45047
- https://github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go/commit/0ff87024cb9ed01fc5f5fdc6f4603fce4c123922
- https://github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go
- https://github.com/xddxdd/bird-lg-go/releases/tag/v1.4.5