CVE-2024-45338

Publication date 18 December 2024

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

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
lxd 25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
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
adsys 25.10 questing
Fixed 0.16.0ubuntu1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 0.16.0ubuntu1
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
golang-golang-x-net 25.10 questing
Vulnerable
25.04 plucky
Vulnerable
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needed
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:0.21.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:0.0+git20211209.491a49a+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
golang-golang-x-net-dev 25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:0.0+git20190811.74dc4d7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:0.0+git20170629.c81e7f2+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:0.0+git20160110.4fd4a9f-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
juju-core 25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
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
Fixed 2.3.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1
containerd 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
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
google-guest-agent 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
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

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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

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
golang-golang-x-net

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7197-1
    • Go Networking vulnerability
    • 9 January 2025

Other references