CVE-2019-6486

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-6486
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-01-24 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:13:00 UTC
DescriptionGo 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Golang Go All All All All
Application Golang Go All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1444-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1664-1] golang security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
crypto/elliptic: CPU DoS vulnerability affecting P-521 and P-384 · Issue #29903 · golang/go · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
[release-branch.go1.11-security] crypto/elliptic: reduce subtraction … · golang/go@42b42f7 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4379-1 golang-1.7 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4380-1 golang-1.8 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1499-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Google Groups groups.google.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1506-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Google Groups CONFIRM groups.google.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1164-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
GitHub - google/wycheproof: Project Wycheproof tests crypto libraries against known attacks. MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Golang Go CVE-2019-6486 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296092 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 7.1.4 Missing (CPUJAN2019)
  • 377556 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for go-toolset:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0069)
  • 500972 Alpine Linux Security Update for go
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