GO-2021-0264 BIT-golang-2021-41772 CVE-2021-41772
Panic when opening certain archives in archive/zip
- Severity
- Not rated yet
- No source has published a CVSS score yet
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 3.25%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 88.34% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- —
- Not classified
- Fix
1.17.3- Upgrade stdlib to this version or later
Description
Previously, opening a zip with (*Reader).Open could result in a panic if the zip contained a file whose name was exclusively made up of slash characters or ".." path elements.
Open could also panic if passed the empty string directly as an argument.
Now, any files in the zip whose name could not be made valid for fs.FS.Open will be skipped, and no longer added to the fs.FS file list, although they are still accessible through (*Reader).File.
Note that it was already the case that a file could be accessible from (*Reader).Open with a name different from the one in (*Reader).File, as the former is the cleaned name, while the latter is the original one.
Finally, the actual panic site was made robust as a defense-in-depth measure.
Affected versions
Go
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| stdlib | < 1.16.10>= 1.17.0-0, < 1.17.3 |
1.16.101.17.3 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
stdlib Go → 1.17.3
- go
go get stdlib@v1.17.3 && go mod tidy
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Credits: Colin Arnott (SiteHost), Noah Santschi-Cooney (Sourcegraph Code Intelligence Team)
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