CVE-2022-30631 (GCVE-0-2022-30631)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-09 20:16 – Updated: 2025-10-20 17:51
VLAI
Title
Stack exhaustion when reading certain archives in compress/gzip
Summary
Uncontrolled recursion in Reader.Read in compress/gzip before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via an archive containing a large number of concatenated 0-length compressed files.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library compress/gzip Affected: 0 , < 1.17.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.18.0-0 , < 1.18.4 (semver)
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