ALAS2-2023-2024

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-24537  

Calling any of the Parse functions on Go source code which contains //line directives with very large line numbers can cause an infinite loop due to integer overflow. (CVE-2023-24537)

ALAS2-2023-2024


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2024
Advisory Release Date: 2023-04-27 18:36 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-05-02 19:18 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

Calling any of the Parse functions on Go source code which contains //line directives with very large line numbers can cause an infinite loop due to integer overflow. (CVE-2023-24537)


Affected Packages:

golang


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    golang-bin-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    golang-shared-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

noarch:
    golang-docs-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    golang-misc-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    golang-tests-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch
    golang-src-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.noarch

src:
    golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    golang-bin-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    golang-shared-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    golang-race-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64