Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint

Published

2025-12-31 12:00

Collected

2026-07-03 03:27

---
id: 1307
title: "Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/31/detect-gos-silent-arithmetic-bugs-with-go-panikint/"
published_at: "2025-12-31 12:00"
tags: ["vulnerability-research", "developer-security", "fuzzing", "go", "static-analysis", "tool-release", "compiler", "integer-overflow", "cosmos-sdk"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1307"
lang: en
---

# Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint

## Summary

go-panikint, a modified Go compiler from Trail of Bits, turns silent integer overflows into explicit panics; it uncovered a real overflow in Cosmos SDK RPC pagination, closing a fuzzing blind spot.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2025-12-31 12:00
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/31/detect-gos-silent-arithmetic-bugs-with-go-panikint/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1307