Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Ipfs/Go-Bitfield package

2023

Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

go-bitfield is a simple bitfield package for the go language aiming to be more performant that the standard library. When feeding untrusted user input into the size parameter of NewBitfield and FromBytes functions, an attacker can trigger panics. This happen when the size is a not a multiple of 8 or is negative. There were already a note in the NewBitfield documentation, however known users of this package are subject …