Packages
- golang-golang-x-net - Supplementary Go networking libraries
Details
Bahruz Jabiyev, Tommaso Innocenti, Anthony Gavazzi, Steven Sprecher, and
Kaan Onarlioglu discovered that servers using Go Networking could hang
during shutdown if preempted by a fatal error. An attacker could possibly
use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27664)
Arpad Ryszka and Jakob Ackermann discovered that a maliciously crafted
stream could cause excessive CPU usage in Go Networking's HPACK decoder. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-41723)
Mohammad Thoriq Aziz discovered that Go Networking did not properly
sanitize some text nodes. An attacker could possibly use this to execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-3978)
Sean Ng...
Bahruz Jabiyev, Tommaso Innocenti, Anthony Gavazzi, Steven Sprecher, and
Kaan Onarlioglu discovered that servers using Go Networking could hang
during shutdown if preempted by a fatal error. An attacker could possibly
use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-27664)
Arpad Ryszka and Jakob Ackermann discovered that a maliciously crafted
stream could cause excessive CPU usage in Go Networking's HPACK decoder. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-41723)
Mohammad Thoriq Aziz discovered that Go Networking did not properly
sanitize some text nodes. An attacker could possibly use this to execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-3978)
Sean Ng discovered an error in Go Networking's HTML tag handling. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2025-22872)
Guido Vranken and Jakub Ciolek discovered that a maliciously crafted HTML
document could exhaust system resources on servers using Go Networking. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2025-47911)
Guido Vranken discovered that a maliciously crafted HTML document could put
servers using Go Networking into an infinite loop. An attacker could
possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-58190)
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 24.04 LTS noble | golang-golang-x-net-dev – 1:0.21.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | ||
| 22.04 LTS jammy | golang-golang-x-net-dev – 1:0.0+git20211209.491a49a+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 | ||
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