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CVE-2019-6486

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Description

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.

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https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html

https://github.com/google/wycheproof

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106740

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.html

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-01-24

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0108

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