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CVE-2016-3959

Public on 2016-04-21
Modified on 2016-04-21
Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in Go's verification of DSA public keys. An attacker could provide a crafted key to HTTPS client or SSH server libraries which would cause the application to enter an infinite loop.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 golang 2016-04-21 16:00 ALAS-2016-687

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H