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Building a malicious package that uses cgo could cause arbitrary code execution at link time by passing linker script files to the host linker via "#cgo LDFLAGS". Split "-Wl," flags that consume a following argument (such as "-Wl,-rpath", "-Wl,--just-symbols", and "-Wl,-undefined") previously accepted a bare second argument without a "-Wl," prefix, which the compiler driver passes directly to the linker as a positional input file. Additionally, when using GNU ld.bfd, flags such as "-framework", "-Wl,-framework", "-Wl,-undefined", "-Wl,--just-symbols", "-Wl,-R", "-Wl,-subsystem", and (on non-Darwin platforms) "-Wl,-sectcreate" could cause ld.bfd to interpret their arguments as linker scripts if they named a regular file on disk. The go command now requires a "-Wl," prefix on the second token of split "-Wl," flags (except "-Wl,-R"), verifies that these flags do not reference linker script files, and disallows bare "-Wl,--warn-backrefs-exclude".

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Go toolchain cmd/go 1.27.0-0 <1.27.4 —
Go toolchain cmd/go 0 <1.26.11 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 golang-1.26 +1 No fix yet —
Debian 13 golang-1.24 No fix yet —
Debian 12 golang-1.19 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 golang-1.26 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS golang-1.23 +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS golang-1.21 +5 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS golang-1.17 +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS golang-1.13 +5 No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS golang-1.8 +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS golang-1.6 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS golang-1.10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS golang-1.13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS golang-1.16 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS golang-1.13 +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS golang-1.13 +1 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed go1.26 1.26.11-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12529-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go toolchain < 1.26.11 · >= 1.27.0-0, < 1.27.4 1.26.11, 1.27.4 GO-2026-6854

Advisories 2

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