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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Go Networking vulnerabilities (USN-8089-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 302214

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8089-1 advisory.

 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected golang-golang-x-net-dev package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8089-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 302214

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8089-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2026

Updated: 3/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 2.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22872

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-golang-x-net-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27664, CVE-2022-41723, CVE-2023-3978, CVE-2025-22872, CVE-2025-47911, CVE-2025-58190

USN: 8089-1