Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-9283  

An attacker can craft an ssh-ed25519 or sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com public key, such that the library will panic when trying to verify a signature with it. Clients can deliver such a public key and signature to any golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server with a PublicKeyCallback, and servers can deliver them to any golang.org/x/crypto/ssh client.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An attacker can craft an ssh-ed25519 or sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com public key, such that the library will panic when trying to verify a signature with it. Clients can deliver such a public key and signature to any golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server with a PublicKeyCallback, and servers can deliver them to any golang.org/x/crypto/ssh client.

AVG-1109 golang-golang-x-crypto 0.0.20191228-1 Medium Unknown