Description
gopacket provides packet processing capabilities for Go. Prior to 1.7.2, the SCTP chunk chain in layers/sctp.go passes attacker-controlled declared lengths and counts to decodeSCTPInit, decodeSCTPShutdown, decodeSCTPError, decodeSCTPSack, and decodeSCTPParameter without checking that each chunk contains the fixed fields, parameter TLVs, gap acknowledgements, or duplicate TSNs those sub-decoders read. A crafted SCTP segment can therefore cause out-of-bounds or inverted slice panics; the panic can terminate applications that use gopacket.DecodeOptions.SkipDecodeRecovery, direct registered decoders, or DecodingLayerParser with IgnorePanic enabled, while the default recovery-enabled APIs convert it to a per-packet decode error. This is the SCTP sub-decoder residual named but not remediated by CVE-2026-65819, whose version 1.7.1 changes bounded the generic dispatcher but left these per-type reads and loops unchecked. The impact is availability only, with no data disclosure, modification, or allocation amplification. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.2.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gopacket | gopacket | < 1.7.2 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | golang-github-gopacket-gopacket | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 13 | golang-github-gopacket-gopacket | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | golang-github-gopacket-gopacket | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | golang-github-gopacket-gopacket | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | golang-github-gopacket-gopacket | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | golang-github-gopacket-gopacket | No fix yet | — |
Azure Linux
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Linux 3 | telegraf | No fix yet | — |
Wolfi
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfi rolling | calico-node-3.32 +1 | 3.32.3-r1 | — |
| Wolfi rolling | cilium-1.19 +2 | 1.19.10-r3 | — |
| Wolfi rolling | fq | 0.18.0-r7 | — |
| Wolfi rolling | telegraf-1.38 | 1.38.4-r39 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/gopacket/gopacket | < 1.7.2 | 1.7.2 | GHSA-358w-w75h-x6rx |