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Unscored CVE-2026-97040 EUVD-2026-123105GHSA-9767-p5x8-v2p2GO-2026-6851

Cgo directive injection via .syso files disguised as Go object files in cmd/go and cmd/link

Published Nov 11, 2026 · Assigned by Go

Description

Building a package containing a crafted ".syso" file could bypass cgo flag validation and inject arbitrary linker flags when linking. When loading ".syso" entries from a package archive, the linker only checked for recognized host object headers (ELF, Mach-O, PE, and XCOFF) before falling through to Go object parsing. A ".syso" file beginning with a "go object" header was parsed as a Go compiler object, allowing untrusted cgo metadata directives (such as "cgo_ldflag" or "cgo_dynamic_linker") embedded in the ".syso" file to be passed to the external linker without validation. Additionally, ".syso" filenames longer than 16 bytes lost their ".syso" extension when truncated in archive headers, and unrecognized ".syso" formats forced external linking in pure-Go builds. The linker now rejects ".syso" files that are not recognized host object formats, and "cmd/go" and "cmd/pack" preserve the ".syso" suffix when truncating long archive member names.

Affected products

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

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
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-2026-6851

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