Red Hat Security Advisory: golang security update
The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler. Security Fix(es): * golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip (CVE-2025-61728) * golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726) * cmd/cgo: Potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo (CVE-2025-61732) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This advisory covers three security vulnerabilities in the golang compiler packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. CVE-2025-61728 involves excessive CPU consumption when building archive indexes in the archive/zip package. CVE-2025-61726 concerns memory exhaustion during query parameter parsing in the net/url package. CVE-2025-61732 relates to potential code smuggling via documentation comments in cmd/cgo. These vulnerabilities have been addressed in the golang 1.19.13-23.el9_2 update released by Red Hat. The issues could impact availability and potentially allow code injection under specific conditions.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can cause high impact denial of service conditions due to excessive CPU or memory consumption and may allow code smuggling attacks that could lead to code execution risks. The CVSS vector for CVE-2025-61726 indicates network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction, unchanged scope, no confidentiality or integrity impact, but high availability impact. Overall, these vulnerabilities affect system stability and security of applications built with the affected golang packages.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an updated golang package version 1.19.13-23.el9_2 that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 should apply this update promptly. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation is required beyond applying the official update.
Red Hat Security Advisory: golang security update
Description
The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler. Security Fix(es): * golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip (CVE-2025-61728) * golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726) * cmd/cgo: Potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo (CVE-2025-61732) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Affected software
Weaknesses
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This advisory covers three security vulnerabilities in the golang compiler packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. CVE-2025-61728 involves excessive CPU consumption when building archive indexes in the archive/zip package. CVE-2025-61726 concerns memory exhaustion during query parameter parsing in the net/url package. CVE-2025-61732 relates to potential code smuggling via documentation comments in cmd/cgo. These vulnerabilities have been addressed in the golang 1.19.13-23.el9_2 update released by Red Hat. The issues could impact availability and potentially allow code injection under specific conditions.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can cause high impact denial of service conditions due to excessive CPU or memory consumption and may allow code smuggling attacks that could lead to code execution risks. The CVSS vector for CVE-2025-61726 indicates network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction, unchanged scope, no confidentiality or integrity impact, but high availability impact. Overall, these vulnerabilities affect system stability and security of applications built with the affected golang packages.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released an updated golang package version 1.19.13-23.el9_2 that addresses these vulnerabilities. Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 should apply this update promptly. Detailed update instructions are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation is required beyond applying the official update.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:3472
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-61728","CVE-2025-61732"]
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a160969e29bf47b5062f02c
Added to database: 05/26/2026, 20:58:17 UTC
Last enriched: 07/30/2026, 11:49:00 UTC
Last updated: 07/31/2026, 21:28:45 UTC
Views: 80
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