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Red Hat: CVE-2019-6486: golang: crypto/elliptic implementations of P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves allow for denial of service

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 24, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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