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Ubuntu Go Cryptography Important Denial of Service Issues USN-8447-1

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2026
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical security issues in Go Cryptography for Ubuntu's latest versions addressed. Urgent updates recommended for user protection.
Several security issues were fixed in Go Cryptography.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Go Cryptography. Software Description: - golang-go.crypto: Supplementary Go cryptography libraries Details: It was discovered that Go Cryptography did not properly handle SSH global request responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-39830) It was discovered that Go Cryptography did not properly verify user presence when using FIDO/U2F security keys. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass user presence verification for hardware security keys. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-39831) It was discovered that Go Cryptography did not properly serialize SSH agent key constraint extensions. An attacker could po...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS golang-golang-x-crypto-dev 1:0.47.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS golang-golang-x-crypto-dev 1:0.19.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 22.04 LTS golang-golang-x-crypto-dev 1:0.0~git20211202.5770296-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 20.04 LTS golang-golang-x-crypto-dev 1:0.0~git20200221.2aa609c-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 18.04 LTS golang-go.crypto-dev 1:0.0~git20170629.0.5ef0053-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro golang-golang-x-crypto-dev 1:0.0~git20170629.0.5ef0053-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 16.04 LTS golang-go.crypto-dev 1:0.0~git20151201.0.7b85b09-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro golang-golang-x-crypto-dev 1:0.0~git20151201.0.7b85b09-2ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8447-1

CVE-2026-39830, CVE-2026-39831, CVE-2026-39832, CVE-2026-39833,

CVE-2026-39834, CVE-2026-42508, CVE-2026-46595

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8447-1

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