x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in net/http, net/textproto: CVE-2023-24534

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CVE ID

CVE-2023-24534

GHSA ID

No response

Additional information

net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation

HTTP and MIME header parsing could allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs.

Certain unusual patterns of input data could cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service.

Header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.

Thanks to Jakob Ackermann (@das7pad) for discovering this issue.

This is CVE-2023-24534 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/58975.

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Xdv6JL9ENs8

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Change https://go.dev/cl/482619 mentions this issue: data/reports: add GO-2023-1704.yaml