Vulnerability CVE-2019-6486
Published: 2019-01-24

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.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.4/10
4.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Golang -> GO 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00042.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/106740
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/42b42f71cf8f5956c09e66230293dfb5db652360
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29903
https://github.com/google/wycheproof
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00009.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4379
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4380
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