ESB-2026.3164
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2026.3164
USN-8089-2: Go Networking vulnerabilities
1 April 2026
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AUSCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Go Networking
Publisher: Ubuntu
Operating System: Ubuntu
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2021-33194 CVE-2025-22872 CVE-2023-3978
CVE-2022-27664 CVE-2025-47911 CVE-2025-58190
CVE-2022-41723
Original Bulletin:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8089-2
Comment: CVSS (Max): 7.5 CVE-2022-41723 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVSS Source: Ubuntu
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (Max): 0.3% (50th) CVE-2022-41723 2026-03-31
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USN-8089-2: Go Networking vulnerabilities
Publication date
31 March 2026
Overview
Several security issues were fixed in Go Networking
Releases
20.04 LTS 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS
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Packages
o golang-golang-x-net-dev - Supplementary Go networking development files
Details
USN-8089-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Go Networking. This update provides
the corresponding update to code vendored in golang-golang-x-net-dev.
Original advisory details:
Bahruz Jabiyev, Tommaso Innocenti, Anthony Gavazzi, Steven Sprecher, and
Kaan Onarlioglu discovered that servers using Go Networking could hang
during shutdown if preempted by a fatal error. An attacker could possibly
use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-27664 )
Arpad Ryszka and Jakob Ackermann discovered that a maliciously crafted
stream could cause excessive CPU usage in Go Networking's HPACK decoder. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-41723 )
Mohammad Thoriq Aziz discovered that Go Networking did not properly
sanitize some text nodes. An attacker could possibly use this to execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2023-3978 )
Sean Ng discovered an error in Go Networking's HTML tag handling. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
( CVE-2025-22872 )
Guido Vranken and Jakub Ciolek discovered that a maliciously crafted HTML
document could exhaust system resources on servers using Go Networking. An
attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
( CVE-2025-47911 )
Guido Vranken discovered that a maliciously crafted HTML document could put
servers using Go Networking into an infinite loop. An attacker could
possibly use this to cause a denial of service. ( CVE-2025-58190 )
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Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package
versions:
Ubuntu Package Version
Release
golang-go.net-dev - 1:0.0+git20190811.74dc4d7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
20.04 Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro via ESM Apps. A community fix
LTS might become publicly available in the future.
focal golang-golang-x-net-dev - 1:0.0+git20190811.74dc4d7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro via ESM Apps. A community fix
might become publicly available in the future.
golang-go.net-dev - 1:0.0+git20170629.c81e7f2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
18.04 Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro via ESM Apps. A community fix
LTS might become publicly available in the future.
bionic golang-golang-x-net-dev - 1:0.0+git20170629.c81e7f2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro via ESM Apps. A community fix
might become publicly available in the future.
16.04 golang-go.net-dev - 1:0.0+git20160110.4fd4a9f-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Ubuntu Pro
LTS Fix available with Ubuntu Pro .
xenial golang-golang-x-net-dev - 1:0.0+git20160110.4fd4a9f-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro .
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References
o CVE-2025-58190
o CVE-2025-47911
o CVE-2025-22872
o CVE-2023-3978
o CVE-2022-41723
o CVE-2022-27664
o CVE-2021-33194
Related notices
o USN-8089-1
o USN-7111-1
o USN-7109-1
o USN-6038-1
o USN-6038-2
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