Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: golang security update

An update for golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

cmd/go: cmd/go: Arbitrary file write via malicious pkg-config directive

A flaw was found in cmd/go. An attacker can exploit this by building a malicious Go source file that uses the 'cgo pkg-config:' directive. This allows the attacker to write to an arbitrary file with partial control over its content, by providing a '--log-file' argument to the pkg-config command...

Important: golang security update

The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler. Security Fixes: cmd/go: cmd/go: Arbitrary file write via malicious pkg-config directive CVE-2025-61731 net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url CVE-2026-25679 For more details about the security issues, including...

RHEL 10 : golang (RHSA-2026:5943)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:5943 advisory. The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler. Security Fixes: cmd/go: cmd/go: Arbitrary file write via malicious...

RHEL 9 : golang (RHSA-2026:5942)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:5942 advisory. The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler. Security Fixes: cmd/go: cmd/go: Arbitrary file write via malicious...

ALSA-2026:5942 Important: golang security update

The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler. Security Fixes: cmd/go: cmd/go: Arbitrary file write via malicious pkg-config directive CVE-2025-61731 net/url: Incorrect parsing of IPv6 host literals in net/url CVE-2026-25679 For more details about the security issues, including...

OESA-2026-1703 golang security update

The Go Programming Language. Security Fixes: The net/url package does not set a limit on the number of query parameters in a query. While the maximum size of query parameters in URLs is generally limited by the maximum request header size, the net/http.Request.ParseForm method can parse large...

OESA-2026-1702 golang security update

The Go Programming Language. Security Fixes: The net/url package does not set a limit on the number of query parameters in a query. While the maximum size of query parameters in URLs is generally limited by the maximum request header size, the net/http.Request.ParseForm method can parse large...

OESA-2026-1700 golang security update

The Go Programming Language. Security Fixes: The net/url package does not set a limit on the number of query parameters in a query. While the maximum size of query parameters in URLs is generally limited by the maximum request header size, the net/http.Request.ParseForm method can parse large...

CVE-2025-61731

A flaw was found in cmd/go. An attacker can exploit this by building a malicious Go source file that uses the 'cgo pkg-config:' directive. This allows the attacker to write to an arbitrary file with partial control over its content, by providing a '--log-file' argument to the pkg-config command...

BIT-GOLANG-2025-61731 Arbitrary file write using cgo pkg-config directive in cmd/go

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

AZL-78935 CVE-2025-61731 affecting package golang 1.25.7-1

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-61731

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

EUVD-2025-206447

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

CVE-2025-61731 Arbitrary file write using cgo pkg-config directive in cmd/go

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

CVE-2025-61731

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

CVE-2025-61731

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

CVE-2025-61731

CVE-2025-61731 is referenced in connected advisories for Amazon Linux 2023 as affecting the Go toolchain, specifically the cmd/go component. The documented impact in those sources states that a bypass of flag sanitization can lead to arbitrary code execution when using the toolchain (CVE-2025-617...

CVE-2025-61731 Arbitrary file write using cgo pkg-config directive in cmd/go

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...

CVE-2025-61731 Arbitrary file write using cgo pkg-config directive in cmd/go

Building a malicious file with cmd/go can cause can cause a write to an attacker-controlled file with partial control of the file content. The "cgo pkg-config:" directive in a Go source file provides command-line arguments to provide to the Go pkg-config command. An attacker can provide a...