Red Hat Security Advisory: golang security update
🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)
📋 Description
CVE-2025-61726 — golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url CVE-2025-61728 — golang: archive/zip: Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip CVE-2025-61732 — cmd/cgo: Go cgo: Code smuggling due to comment parsing discrepancy
🎯 Affected products15
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-bin-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-bin-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-bin-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-bin-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-docs-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-misc-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-race-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-src-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
- golang-tests-0:1.17.13-10.el9_0.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.0)
✅ Remediation
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible. Workaround: To mitigate this vulnerability, implement a timeout in your archive/zip processing logic to abort the operation if it exceeds a few seconds, preventing the application from consuming an excessive amount of resources.
🔗 References (6)
- selfhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3473
- externalhttps://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2434431
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2434432
- externalhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2437016
- selfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_3473.json