CVE-2016-3959

golang: infinite loop in several big integer routines

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · April 5, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was found in Go's verification of DSA public keys. An attacker could provide a crafted key to HTTPS client or SSH server libraries which would cause the application to enter an infinite loop.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')