Description
gopacket provides packet processing capabilities for Go. In version 1.6.0 and earlier, the sFlow ExtendedGatewayFlow decoder in layers/sflow.go reads an attacker-controlled 32-bit community count and AS path member count and sizes a slice allocation from those counts without bounding them against the bytes remaining in the datagram, so a 104-byte UDP datagram can drive an allocation of up to 16 GiB and cause an unauthenticated remote denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.1.
Affected products
gopacket: gopacket
References4
- github.com/gopacket/gopacket/commit/76119086f5936aacd7088bdf97d… Patch
- github.com/gopacket/gopacket/security/advisories/GHSA-g6v3-7xmc… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- github.com/gopacket/gopacket/security/advisories/GHSA-g6v3-7xmc… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- github.com/gopacket/gopacket/releases/tag/v1.6.1 Release Notes
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.5
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 4.0
-
6.9
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 57 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-770
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