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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2023-23626 EUVD-2023-0601GHSA-2h6c-j3gf-xp9rGO-2023-1558

Denial of service when feeding malformed size arguments in go-bitfield

Published Feb 9, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

go-bitfield is a simple bitfield package for the go language aiming to be more performant that the standard library. When feeding untrusted user input into the size parameter of `NewBitfield` and `FromBytes` functions, an attacker can trigger `panic`s. This happen when the `size` is a not a multiple of `8` or is negative. There were already a note in the `NewBitfield` documentation, however known users of this package are subject to this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that `size` is a multiple of 8 before calling `NewBitfield` or `FromBytes`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ipfs go-bitfield < 1.1.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield < 1.1.0 1.1.0 GHSA-2h6c-j3gf-xp9r

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