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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0171 Critical: Golang Stack Overflow

encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in Decode. A large (more than 5 MB) PEM input can cause a stack overflow in Decode, leading the program to crash (CVE-2022-24675) crypto/elliptic: tolerate all oversized scalars in generic P-256. A . MGASA-2022-0171 - Updated golang packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 12 May 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0171.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2022-24675, CVE-2022-28327 encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in Decode. A large (more than 5 MB) PEM input can cause a stack overflow in Decode, leading the program to crash (CVE-2022-24675) crypto/elliptic: tolerate all oversized scalars in generic P-256. A crafted scalar input longer than 32 bytes can cause P256().ScalarMult or P256().ScalarBaseMult to panic. Indirect uses through crypto/ecdsa and crypto/tls are unaffected. amd64, arm64, ppc64le, and s390x are unaffected. (CVE-2022-28327) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30362 - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24675 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28327 SRPMS: - 8/core/golang-1.17.9-1.mga8 . Golang libraries revised to mitigate security risks in Mageia. Resolution for stack overflow issues in Decode and issues with large scalars.. Golang Security Update, Mageia 8, Stack Overflow Fix. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 12, 2022 •Critical Mageia