Red Hat Security Advisory: golang security update
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the golang packages provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, affecting components such as archive/zip, net/url, cmd/cgo, and crypto/tls. These include excessive CPU consumption, memory exhaustion, potential code smuggling, and unexpected session resumption. Red Hat has issued an important security update addressing these issues. The vulnerabilities are rated as having a high security impact. Updated packages are available for various architectures and Red Hat Enterprise Linux variants. Users are advised to apply the provided updates to remediate these vulnerabilities.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The golang packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 contain several security flaws: CVE-2025-61728 causes excessive CPU consumption when building archive indexes in archive/zip; CVE-2025-61726 leads to memory exhaustion during query parameter parsing in net/url; CVE-2025-61732 allows potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo; and CVE-2025-68121 results in unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls. Red Hat Product Security has released updated golang packages to fix these vulnerabilities across multiple architectures including x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64. The advisory RHSA-2026:2706 provides details and instructions for applying these updates.
Potential Impact
These vulnerabilities can lead to resource exhaustion (CPU and memory), potential code injection or smuggling, and unexpected session resumption, which may affect the stability and security of applications compiled or run using the affected golang packages. The issues are rated with a high security impact by Red Hat. There are no known exploits in the wild at the time of the advisory.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated golang packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 versions and architectures should apply the security update as described in advisory RHSA-2026:2706 and the referenced Red Hat article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying these official patches is the recommended remediation. Patch status is confirmed as available.
Red Hat Security Advisory: golang security update
Description
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in the golang packages provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, affecting components such as archive/zip, net/url, cmd/cgo, and crypto/tls. These include excessive CPU consumption, memory exhaustion, potential code smuggling, and unexpected session resumption. Red Hat has issued an important security update addressing these issues. The vulnerabilities are rated as having a high security impact. Updated packages are available for various architectures and Red Hat Enterprise Linux variants. Users are advised to apply the provided updates to remediate these vulnerabilities.
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Technical Analysis
The golang packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 contain several security flaws: CVE-2025-61728 causes excessive CPU consumption when building archive indexes in archive/zip; CVE-2025-61726 leads to memory exhaustion during query parameter parsing in net/url; CVE-2025-61732 allows potential code smuggling via doc comments in cmd/cgo; and CVE-2025-68121 results in unexpected session resumption in crypto/tls. Red Hat Product Security has released updated golang packages to fix these vulnerabilities across multiple architectures including x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64. The advisory RHSA-2026:2706 provides details and instructions for applying these updates.
Potential Impact
These vulnerabilities can lead to resource exhaustion (CPU and memory), potential code injection or smuggling, and unexpected session resumption, which may affect the stability and security of applications compiled or run using the affected golang packages. The issues are rated with a high security impact by Red Hat. There are no known exploits in the wild at the time of the advisory.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated golang packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 versions and architectures should apply the security update as described in advisory RHSA-2026:2706 and the referenced Red Hat article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying these official patches is the recommended remediation. Patch status is confirmed as available.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:2706
- Cve Count
- 4
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-61728","CVE-2025-61732","CVE-2025-68121"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a16096be29bf47b5063234d
Added to database: 5/26/2026, 8:58:19 PM
Last enriched: 5/26/2026, 9:46:50 PM
Last updated: 5/27/2026, 5:03:40 AM
Views: 2
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