CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3959
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly check parameters passed to the big integer library, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted public key to a program that uses HTTPS client certificates or SSH server libraries.
Affected configurations
• opensuse leap 42.1
• golang go 1.6
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• golang go (<= 1.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182526.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183106.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183137.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00077.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1538.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/2 www.openwall.com
- https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/21533/ go-review.googlesource.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/9eqIHqaWvck groups.google.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182526.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183106.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183137.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00077.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1538.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/2 www.openwall.com
- https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/21533/ go-review.googlesource.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/9eqIHqaWvck groups.google.com