CVE-2024-45338

Publication date 18 December 2024

Last updated 9 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

An attacker can craft an input to the Parse functions that would be processed non-linearly with respect to its length, resulting in extremely slow parsing. This could cause a denial of service.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
adsys 24.10 oracular
Fixed 0.15.2ubuntu0.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 0.14.3~24.04ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 0.14.3~22.04ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.9.2~20.04.2ubuntu0.1
containerd 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
golang-golang-x-net 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
22.04 LTS jammy
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
golang-golang-x-net-dev 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
google-guest-agent 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
juju-core 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
lxd 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

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Notes

hlibk

google-guest-agent, containerd, and lxd do not contain the vulnerable code.

alexmurray

google-guest-agent, adsys, juju-core and lxd contain a vendored copy of golang-golang-x-net

mdeslaur

containerd contains a vendored copy of golang-golang-x-net

Patch details

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Package Patch details
golang-golang-x-net