[saagarjha]

Go allows data races to arbitrarily corrupt metadata, which is the precursor to an exploit like this. A brief rule-of-thumb is if the race allows you to directly touch data that isn't available via APIs, such as the count on a vector–once you do that, you can "resize" it to be larger than its actual size, and run off the end to do whatever you want. (There are many other ways to achieve something similar: type confusion, etc.)