UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5740

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5740

    Published: 18 Oct 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5740

    Summary:

    Details: The net/http library in net/http/transfer.go in Go before 1.4.3 does not properly parse HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a request with two Content-length headers.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5740, https://github.com/golang/go/commit/300d9a21583e7cf0149a778a0611e76ff7c6680f, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5740

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gccgo-4.9

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.9-20140213-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High