CVE-2016-3959HighMicrosoft CVSS 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2016-3959 — azl3 golang

Published
September 3, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • azl3 golang 1.23.12-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 golang 1.27.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
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🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2016-3959

EchelonGraph score
7.5 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly check parameters passed to the big integer library, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted public key to a program that uses HTTPS client certificates or SSH server libraries.

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2016-3959, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)