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The Go language tag on WindowsForum covers security vulnerabilities and practical applications of the Go programming language. Discussions include CVE-2026-25679, a net/url IPv6 parsing bug fixed in Go 1.26.1, and CVE-2024-34158, a stack exhaustion issue in go/build/constraint. Other topics are CVE-2023-39318 affecting html/template, CVE-2021-41772 in archive/zip, and CVE-2025-58186 in net/http, with analysis of their impact on Microsoft products like Azure Linux. A self-hosted dashboard called Glance, written in Go, is also featured. The tag focuses on Go security patches, standard library bugs, and real-world Go applications in homelab and enterprise environments.
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    Glance Self-Hosted Dashboard: One Morning View of Your Homelab

    Glance is a free, open-source, self-hosted dashboard written in Go that turns a home server’s scattered services, feeds, and status pages into a single browser homepage, giving homelab users one morning view of Docker, Pi-hole, RSS, weather, markets, and service health. That sounds modest, but...
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    Go net/url IPv6 Parsing Bug CVE-2026-25679 Fixed in Go 1.26.1

    The Go standard library’s URL parser has been found to accept malformed IPv6 host literals in a way that can lead to surprising, inconsistent behavior across systems — a defect tracked as CVE-2026-25679 and fixed in the Go project’s March 2026 security releases. The root cause is an insufficient...
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    Go Parser Stack Exhaustion CVE-2024-34158: Patch and Mitigation

    A parser bug in the Go standard library — tracked as CVE‑2024‑34158 — lets a specially crafted build-tag line trigger stack exhaustion inside go/build/constraint’s Parse routine and crash processes that parse untrusted source files; the bug was fixed in the emergency releases that shipped in...
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    Azure Linux and CVE-2023-39318: Patch Go html/template to Prevent XSS

    Microsoft’s brief advisory that Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected is an important inventory signal — but it is not a categorical guarantee that Azure Linux is the only Microsoft product that could carry the vulnerable Go html/template code...
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    Go Zip Reader Panic CVE-2021-41772: Fixes in Go 1.16.10 and 1.17.3

    A subtle bug in Go’s standard library quietly opened a door for denial-of-service attacks: malformed ZIP entries could cause archive/zip’s Reader.Open to panic, crashing programs that relied on the io/fs.FS integration introduced in Go 1.16. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-41772 (GO-2021-0264)...
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    Go net http CVE-2025-58186 Impact Across Microsoft Products

    Executive summary — short answer No. Azure Linux is not the only Microsoft product that can include the vulnerable net/http code. Any Microsoft product, service, agent, SDK, or container image that ships or vendors Go binaries (or Go-based packages) built with the vulnerable versions of the Go...
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