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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8883-2

USN-8883-2: Go vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Oct 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM UTC

Summary

USN-8883-1 fixed a vulnerability in Go versions 1.18, 1.21, and 1.24. This update provides the corresponding fix for Go version 1.23.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that the Go x/net/idna package incorrectly handled certain Punycode-encoded labels that decoded to ASCII-only labels. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass hostname-based access controls and escalate privileges.

Products covered

A separate affected-products list was not included in the collected bulletin.

Remediation

USN-8883-1 fixed a vulnerability in Go versions 1.18, 1.21, and 1.24.

CVEs in this advisory 0

No CVE identifiers were listed in the collected bulletin.

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