GHSA-gxgj-xjcw-fv9p

socks Infinite Loop vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2013-10005

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	github.com/btcsuite/go-socks	< 0.0.0-20130808000456-233bccbb1abe	0.0.0-20130808000456-233bccbb1abe
Go	github.com/btcsuitereleases/go-socks	< 0.0.0-20130808000456-233bccbb1abe	0.0.0-20130808000456-233bccbb1abe

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The `RemoteAddr` and `LocalAddr` methods on the returned `net.Conn` may call themselves, leading to an infinite loop which will crash the program due to a stack overflow.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-10005 advisory
https://github.com/btcsuite/go-socks/commit/233bccbb1abe02f05750f7ace66f5bffdb13defc web
https://github.com/btcsuite/go-socks package
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0024 web