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CVE-2019-6486

Published: 24 January 2019

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
Packages built using golang need to be rebuilt once the
vulnerability has been fixed. This CVE entry does not
list packages that need rebuilding outside of the main
repository or the Ubuntu variants with PPA overlays.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.2

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
golang-1.10
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

trusty Needed

upstream
Released (1.10.8)
xenial Needs triage

impish Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.11
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

impish Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Not vulnerable
(1.11.5-1ubuntu1)
eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (1.11.5-1)
xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360
golang
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.12
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Not vulnerable
(1.12~beta2-2)
eoan Not vulnerable
(1.12~beta2-2)
focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (1.12~beta2-2)
xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.6
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.7
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.8
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

golang-1.9
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

bionic Needs triage

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.2
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H