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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2024-24788 json

Malformed DNS message can cause infinite loop in net

published 2024-05-07 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-golang-2024-24788 , EUVD-2024-22165 , GO-2024-2824

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A malformed DNS message in response to a query can cause the Lookup functions to get stuck in an infinite loop.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami golang 1.22.3
  • go stdlib 1.22.3
  • Go standard library net 1.22.3
  • golang-1.22 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.22.2-2~20.04.1
  • golang-1.22 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.22.2-2~22.04.1
  • golang-1.22 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1.22.2-2ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-24788

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • helm ocp tools 4.17 3.15.4-60.el9
  • helm-redistributable ocp tools 4.17 3.15.4-60.el9
  • git-lfs RHEL 9 3.6.1-1.el9
  • openshift-pipelines-client openshift pipelines 1.16 1.16.0-11647.el8
  • openshift-pipelines-client-redistributable openshift pipelines 1.16 1.16.0-11647.el8
  • toolbox RHEL 9 0.0.99.5-5.el9
  • toolbox-tests RHEL 9 0.0.99.5-5.el9
  • grafana RHEL 9 10.2.6-4.el9

red hat advisories RHEA-2025:0507RHSA-2025:7256RHEA-2024:7866RHSA-2024:9135RHSA-2024:9115RHSA-2024:9098

  • go1.22-openssl SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.22.7.1-150600.13.3.1
  • go1.22-openssl SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 1.22.7.1-150000.1.3.1
  • go1.22 SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.6, openSUSE Leap 15.5 1.22.3-150000.1.15.1
  • go1.22 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.22.3-1.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3938-1SUSE-SU-2024:3772-1SUSE-SU-2024:1587-1SUSE-SU-2024:1573-1

  • traefik2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.11.5-1.1
  • go1.22 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.22.3-1.1
  • forgejo openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.0.3-1.1
  • traefik openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.0.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14076-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13936-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13990-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14000-1

  • git-lfs AlmaLinux 9 3.6.1-1.el9
  • containernetworking-plugins AlmaLinux 9 1:1.5.1-2.el9
  • skopeo AlmaLinux 9 2:1.16.1-1.el9
  • skopeo-tests AlmaLinux 9 2:1.16.1-1.el9
  • grafana AlmaLinux 9 10.2.6-4.el9
  • grafana-selinux AlmaLinux 9 10.2.6-4.el9
  • toolbox AlmaLinux 9 0.0.99.5-5.el9
  • toolbox-tests AlmaLinux 9 0.0.99.5-5.el9

almalinux advisories ALSA-2025:7256ALSA-2024:9089ALSA-2024:9098ALSA-2024:9115ALSA-2024:9135ALSA-2024:9200

  • git-lfs Rocky Linux 9 3.6.1-1.el9
  • grafana Rocky Linux 8 9.2.10-17.el8_10
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.18-5.module+el8.10.0+1815+5fe7415e
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.18-5.module+el8.10.0+1825+623b0c20
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.18-5.module+el8.10.0+1843+6892ab28
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.18-5.module+el8.10.0+1872+2e18eb19
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.18-5.module+el8.10.0+1874+ce489889
  • criu Rocky Linux 8 3.18-5.module+el8.10.0+1880+8e896d1b

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2025:7256RLSA-2024:5291RLSA-2024:6969RLSA-2024:9135RLSA-2024:9200RLSA-2024:9277

  • go Alpine 3.19 1.21.10-r0
  • go Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 1.22.3-r0
  • forgejo Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 7.0.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-24788

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • golang CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 1.22.3-1
  • msft-golang CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.22.3
  • golang CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.22.3

azure linux advisories AZL-40375AZL-40436AZL-40471AZL-40480AZL-40517

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-24788 updated cvss 7.5

golang: net: malformed DNS message can cause infinite loop

  • Red Hat Cost Management Metrics Operator costmanagement/costmanagement-metrics-rhel8-operator Red Hat Cryostat 2 cryostat/cryostat-rhel8-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Fence Agents Remediation Operator workload-availability/fence-agents-remediation-rhel8-operator Red Hat Logical Volume Manager Storage lvms4/topolvm-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Machine Deletion Remediation Operator workload-availability/machine-deletion-remediation-rhel8-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 mta/mta-hub-rhel8 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 7 mta/mta-cli-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat mirror registry for Red Hat OpenShift mirror-registry-container
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/hive-rhel8 Red Hat NBDE Tang Server tang-operator-container Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator workload-availability/node-healthcheck-rhel8-operator Red Hat Node Maintenance Operator workload-availability/node-maintenance-rhel8-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Secondary Scheduler Operator openshift-secondary-scheduler-operator/secondary-scheduler-operator-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-clients Red Hat OpenShift Source-to-Image (S2I) source-to-image-container
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Power monitoring for Red Hat OpenShift kepler-container Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp26/3scale-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
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  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/subctl-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 rhceph/rhceph-5-dashboard-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 rhceph/grafana-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 redhat-certification-preflight Red Hat Certification Program for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 redhat-certification-preflight
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 git-lfs, toolbox, weldr-client, toolbox-tests Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 butane, weldr-client
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 skopeo Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift, openshift-clients, openshift-kubelet, openshift-hyperkube, openshift-kube-apiserver, openshift-kube-scheduler, +3 more Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/udi-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2 rhosdt/tempo-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 rhosdt/tempo-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Openshift Sandboxed Containers openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 kubevirt, openshift-golang-builder-container
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 etcd, qpid-proton-c, golang-qpid-apache, python3-qpid-proton, rhosp-rhel8/osp-director-agent, golang-github-infrawatch-apputils Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 etcd, qpid-proton-c, golang-qpid-apache, python3-qpid-proton, rhosp-rhel9/osp-director-agent, golang-github-infrawatch-apputils Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 etcd
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/clair-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Service Interconnect 1 qpid-proton, skupper-cli, skupper-router
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Storage 3 golang, golang-bin, golang-src, golang-misc, golang-tests
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Web Terminal web-terminal-exec-container
    affected: workaround, no fix available

2 more affected, 20 more fixed, 19 more not affected in the full advisory

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami golang
>=1.22.0-0, <1.22.3
1.22.3
go stdlib
>=1.22.0-0, <1.22.3
1.22.3

Affected products

  • Go standard library net

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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