Stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode in encoding/gob

GO-2024-3106 · BIT-golang-2024-34156 · CVE-2024-34156

Published Sep 6, 2024 · Modified Feb 24, 2026

Description

Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion. This is a follow-up to CVE-2022-30635.

References

FIX https://go.dev/cl/611239
REPORT https://go.dev/issue/69139
WEB https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/S9POB9NCTdk

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