It was discovered that Go Networking did not properly handle server errors after sending a GOAWAY frame during HTTP/2 connection shutdown, which could cause the connection to hang. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-27664) It was discovered that Go Networking had quadratic complexity when decoding HPACK headers in HTTP/2 streams.
USN-8900-1: Go Networking vulnerabilities
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