# CVE-2023-23626: Denial of service when feeding malformed size arguments in go-bitfield

- Also known as: GHSA-2H6C-J3GF-XP9R, GO-2023-1558
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.0
- Published: 2023-02-09 · Updated: 2025-03-10

## Affected

- ipfs go-bitfield: fixed in 1.1.0
- github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield (Go): fixed in 1.1.0

## Description

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 `panic`s. 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 to this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that `size` is a multiple of 8 before calling `NewBitfield` or `FromBytes`.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ipfs go-bitfield, github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield/security/advisories/GHSA-2h6c-j3gf-xp9r
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-bitfield/commit/5e1d256fe043fc4163343ccca83862c69c52e579

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