Red Hat Security Advisory: go-toolset:rhel8 security update
This Red Hat security advisory addresses multiple vulnerabilities in the Go Toolset provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 6. The issues include excessive CPU consumption during archive index building (CVE-2025-61728), memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing (CVE-2025-61726), and potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo (CVE-2025-61732). These vulnerabilities affect various Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 6 variants and have been rated with an important security impact by Red Hat. The advisory provides updated packages to remediate these issues.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The advisory covers three vulnerabilities in the Go programming language tools and libraries included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6. CVE-2025-61726 involves memory exhaustion during parsing of query parameters in the net/url package. CVE-2025-61728 concerns excessive CPU consumption when building an archive index in the archive/zip package. CVE-2025-61732 relates to potential code smuggling via documentation comments in the cmd/cgo tool. Red Hat has released updated go-toolset packages to address these vulnerabilities. The advisory references Red Hat's errata RHSA-2026:3489 for detailed patch information.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can lead to resource exhaustion conditions such as excessive CPU usage and memory exhaustion, potentially impacting system stability or availability when processing crafted inputs in Go applications. The code smuggling issue could allow unintended code execution paths via doc comments in cmd/cgo. Red Hat classifies the overall security impact as Important (high severity). There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated go-toolset packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:3489 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since official patches are available, applying these updates is the recommended remediation. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor.
Red Hat Security Advisory: go-toolset:rhel8 security update
Description
This Red Hat security advisory addresses multiple vulnerabilities in the Go Toolset provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 6. The issues include excessive CPU consumption during archive index building (CVE-2025-61728), memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing (CVE-2025-61726), and potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo (CVE-2025-61732). These vulnerabilities affect various Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 6 variants and have been rated with an important security impact by Red Hat. The advisory provides updated packages to remediate these issues.
Weaknesses
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Technical Analysis
The advisory covers three vulnerabilities in the Go programming language tools and libraries included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6. CVE-2025-61726 involves memory exhaustion during parsing of query parameters in the net/url package. CVE-2025-61728 concerns excessive CPU consumption when building an archive index in the archive/zip package. CVE-2025-61732 relates to potential code smuggling via documentation comments in the cmd/cgo tool. Red Hat has released updated go-toolset packages to address these vulnerabilities. The advisory references Red Hat's errata RHSA-2026:3489 for detailed patch information.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can lead to resource exhaustion conditions such as excessive CPU usage and memory exhaustion, potentially impacting system stability or availability when processing crafted inputs in Go applications. The code smuggling issue could allow unintended code execution paths via doc comments in cmd/cgo. Red Hat classifies the overall security impact as Important (high severity). There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated go-toolset packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:3489 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since official patches are available, applying these updates is the recommended remediation. No additional mitigations are specified by the vendor.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:3489
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-61728","CVE-2025-61732"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a16096ae29bf47b506301cd
Added to database: 5/26/2026, 8:58:18 PM
Last enriched: 5/26/2026, 9:42:30 PM
Last updated: 5/27/2026, 4:59:22 AM
Views: 2
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