ALAS2-2023-2211

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-29409  

Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems reasonable. (CVE-2023-29409)

ALAS2-2023-2211


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2211
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-17 11:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-08-23 00:18 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Extremely large RSA keys in certificate chains can cause a client/server to expend significant CPU time verifying signatures. With fix, the size of RSA keys transmitted during handshakes is restricted to <= 8192 bits. Based on a survey of publicly trusted RSA keys, there are currently only three certificates in circulation with keys larger than this, and all three appear to be test certificates that are not actively deployed. It is possible there are larger keys in use in private PKIs, but we target the web PKI, so causing breakage here in the interests of increasing the default safety of users of crypto/tls seems reasonable. (CVE-2023-29409)


Affected Packages:

golang


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

New Packages:
aarch64:
    golang-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    golang-bin-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    golang-shared-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

noarch:
    golang-docs-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    golang-misc-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    golang-tests-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    golang-src-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    golang-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    golang-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    golang-bin-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    golang-shared-1.20.7-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64