CVE-2016-3958
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-23 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:10
Severity ?
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, related to use of the LoadLibrary function.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/05/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/golang/go/issues/14959Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/21428/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/golang-announce/9eqIHqaWvck
Impacted products
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