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🛡️ CVE-2023-24534 on Ubuntu — golang-1.10

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service. With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-24534 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package golang-1.10. The fix is available in version 1.13.8-1ubuntu2.22.04.2; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-24534 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-24534 is recorded against 9 packages.

  • golang-1.10
  • golang-1.13 (fixed in 1.13.8-1ubuntu2.22.04.2)
  • golang-1.14
  • golang-1.16 (fixed in 1.16.2-0ubuntu1~20.04.1)
  • golang-1.17
  • golang-1.18 (fixed in 1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1)
  • golang-1.6
  • golang-1.8
  • golang-1.9

Timeline and source

Published on 6 April 2023 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
groups.google.com (Report)
go.dev (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Advisory)
www.cve.org (Report)

Other advisories for this package

golang-1.10 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

CVE-2023-24534 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-04-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
golang-1.10 — —
golang-1.13 — 1.13.8-1ubuntu2.22.04.2
golang-1.14 — —
golang-1.16 — 1.16.2-0ubuntu1~20.04.1
golang-1.17 — —
golang-1.18 — 1.18.1-1ubuntu1.1
golang-1.6 — —
golang-1.8 — —
golang-1.9 — —

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