# CVE-2026-54345: GoPacket's Diameter AVP decoder: uint32 underflow on vendor header size leads to unbounded ~4 GiB allocation (unauthenticated remote DoS)

- Also known as: GO-2026-6121, GHSA-6R28-9PPF-4HJ5
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.1
- Published: 2026-07-28 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- gopacket: fixed in 1.6.1
- github.com/gopacket/gopacket (Go): fixed in 1.6.1

## Description

gopacket provides packet processing capabilities for Go. In version 1.6.0 and earlier, the Diameter AVP decoder computes an AVP data length by subtracting a fixed header size from an attacker-controlled AVP Length field, so a vendor-flagged AVP whose Length is smaller than the 12-byte header underflows the unsigned 32-bit value and drives an unbounded allocation of roughly 4 GiB, and two such messages in succession OOM-kill a collector, causing an unauthenticated remote denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gopacket, github.com/gopacket/gopacket, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/gopacket/gopacket/security/advisories/GHSA-6r28-9ppf-4hj5
- https://github.com/gopacket/gopacket/commit/145859d0eaee1a6f5925ffb93851c976449c3311
- https://github.com/gopacket/gopacket/releases/tag/v1.6.1

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