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The cgo tag on WindowsForum.com covers security vulnerabilities in the Go toolchain's cgo feature, specifically CVE-2023-29402 and CVE-2023-29404. These critical flaws allow code injection or arbitrary code execution during builds when cgo is enabled and untrusted modules are processed. Discussions focus on supply chain risks, patching strategies, and hardening CI pipelines. The content is relevant for developers, CI operators, and security teams using Go with cgo on Windows or other platforms.
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    Go Toolchain CVE-2023-29402: Patch Builds and Harden Supply Chain Security

    The Go toolchain’s build pipeline was quietly exposed to a high‑risk code‑injection flaw in 2023, and its consequences are still instructive for developers, CI operators, and security teams: CVE-2023-29402 allowed the go command, when invoked with cgo, to generate unexpected and...
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    Go CVE-2023-29404: Build Time RCE Risk from cgo LDFLAGS

    The Go toolchain’s cgo LDFLAGS bug — tracked as CVE‑2023‑29404 — is a high‑severity build‑time weakness that lets a malicious module smuggle unsafe linker directives into the go command’s invocation, creating a practical path to arbitrary code execution during compilation and packaging. This is...
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