CVE-2023-24537

Infinite loop in parsing in go/scanner

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Apr 6, 2023
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Jan 25, 2023

Description

Calling any of the Parse functions on Go source code which contains //line directives with very large line numbers can cause an infinite loop due to integer overflow.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

Product	Versions
go/scannerGo standard library	before 1.19.8Affected 1.20.0-0 to before 1.20.3Affected

References

https://go.dev/issue/59180
https://go.dev/cl/482078
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Xdv6JL9ENs8
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1702
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241129-0004/

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