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Unexpected work during chain building in crypto/x509

GO-2026-4947 · BIT-golang-2026-32280 · CVE-2026-32280

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Description

During chain building, the amount of work that is done is not correctly limited when a large number of intermediate certificates are passed in VerifyOptions.Intermediates, which can lead to a denial of service. This affects both direct users of crypto/x509 and users of crypto/tls.

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