GHSA-h86h-8ppg-mxmh

golang.org/x/net/http/httpguts vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2021-31525

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Go	golang.org/x/net	< 0.0.0-20210428140749-89ef3d95e781	0.0.0-20210428140749-89ef3d95e781

Details

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

golang.org/x/net/http/httpguts in Go before 1.15.12 and 1.16.x before 1.16.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse. Server, Transport, and Client can each be affected in some configurations.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31525 advisory
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45710 web
https://github.com/golang/go package
https://go.dev/cl/313069 web
https://go.dev/issue/45710 web
https://go.googlesource.com/net/+/89ef3d95e781148a0951956029c92a211477f7f9 web
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/cu9SP4eSXMc web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ISRZZ6NY5R2TBYE72KZFOCO25TEUQTBF web
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0236 web
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02 web