ALAS2-2019-1335

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-16276  

It was discovered that net/http (through net/textproto) in golang does not correctly interpret HTTP requests where an HTTP header contains spaces before the colon. This could be abused by an attacker to smuggle HTTP requests when a proxy or a firewall is placed behind a server implemented in Go or to filter bypasses depending on the specific network configuration.(CVE-2019-16276)

ALAS2-2019-1335


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1335
Advisory Release Date: 2019-10-21 18:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-10-24 00:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2019-16276 

Issue Overview:

It was discovered that net/http (through net/textproto) in golang does not correctly interpret HTTP requests where an HTTP header contains spaces before the colon. This could be abused by an attacker to smuggle HTTP requests when a proxy or a firewall is placed behind a server implemented in Go or to filter bypasses depending on the specific network configuration.(CVE-2019-16276)


Affected Packages:

golang


Issue Correction:
Run yum update golang to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    golang-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    golang-bin-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

noarch:
    golang-docs-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    golang-misc-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    golang-tests-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    golang-src-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.noarch

src:
    golang-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    golang-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    golang-bin-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.3.x86_64