Vulnerability CVE-2018-16875
Published: 2018-12-14

Description:
The crypto/x509 package of Go before 1.10.6 and 1.11.x before 1.11.3 does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients are affected.

Type:

CWE-295

 (Certificate Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Golang -> GO 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00060.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00015.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106230
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16875
https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!topic/golang-announce/Kw31K8G7Fi0
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-09
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