Description

A memory leak flaw was found in Golang in the RSA encrypting/decrypting code, which might lead to a resource exhaustion vulnerability using attacker-controlled inputs​. The memory leak happens in github.com/golang-fips/openssl/openssl/rsa.go#L113. The objects leaked are pkey​ and ctx​. That function uses named return parameters to free pkey​ and ctx​ if there is an error initializing the context or setting the different properties. All return statements related to error cases follow the "return nil, nil, fail(...)" pattern, meaning that pkey​ and ctx​ will be nil inside the deferred function that should free them.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-1394

Affected Products

Vendor: Red Hat

Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.07% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 32.81% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-25 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1462
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1468
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1472
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1501
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1502
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1561
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1563
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1566
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1567
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1574
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1640
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1644
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1646
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1763
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1897
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2562
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2568
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2569
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2729
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2730
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2767
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3265
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3352
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4146
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4371
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4378
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4379
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4502
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4581
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4591
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4672
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4699
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4761
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4762
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4960
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5634
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7262
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1394
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262921
https://github.com/golang-fips/openssl/commit/85d31d0d257ce842c8a1e63c4d230ae850348136
https://github.com/golang-fips/openssl/security/advisories/GHSA-78hx-gp6g-7mj6
https://github.com/microsoft/go-crypto-openssl/commit/104fe7f6912788d2ad44602f77a0a0a62f1f259f
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2660
https://vuln.go.dev/ID/GO-2024-2660.json

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