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CVE-2023-23626

Reference to the description:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23626

Description:
go-bitfield is a simple bitfield package for the go language aiming to be more performant that the standard library. When feeding untrusted user input into the size parameter of `NewBitfield` and `FromBytes` functions, an attacker can trigger `panic`s. This happen when the `size` is a not a multiple of `8` or is negative. There were already a note in the `NewBitfield` documentation, however known users of this package are subject to this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that `size` is a multiple of 8 before calling `NewBitfield` or `FromBytes`.
Last updated date:
02/17/2023
Type:
exploit
Confidence:
HIGH
Date of publishing:
02/17/2023
Reference url to background

https://github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield/security/advisories/GHSA-2h6c-j3gf-xp9r

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