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A memory leak flaw was found in Golang in the RSA encrypting/decrypting code, which might lead to a resource exhaustion vulnerability using attacker-controlled inputs​. The memory leak happens in github.com/golang-fips/openssl/openssl/rsa.go#L113. The objects leaked are pkey​ and ctx​. That function uses named return parameters to free pkey​ and ctx​ if there is an error initializing the context or setting the different properties. All return statements related to error cases follow the "return nil, nil, fail(...)" pattern, meaning that pkey​ and ctx​ will be nil inside the deferred function that should free them.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-02-09 | Published 2024-03-21 | Updated 2025-09-25 | Assigner redhat




HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Timeline

2024-02-06:Reported to Red Hat.
2024-03-20:Made public.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank @qmuntal and @r3kumar for reporting this issue.

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