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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2020-9283)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 20, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A security issue has been found in golang.org/x/crypto before v0.0.0-20200220183623-bac4c82f6975. An attacker can craft an ssh-ed25519 or [email protected] public key, such that the library will panic when trying to verify a signature with it. Clients can deliver such a public key and signature to any golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server with a PublicKeyCallback, and servers can deliver them to any golang.org/x/crypto/ssh client.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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