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CVE-2021-44717 (GCVE-0-2021-44717)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:32
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Summary
Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
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