Important: go-toolset-1.11 and go-toolset-1.11-golang security update

Synopsis

Important: go-toolset-1.11 and go-toolset-1.11-golang security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for go-toolset-1.11 and go-toolset-1.11-golang is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Go Toolset provides the Go programming language tools and libraries. Go is alternatively known as golang.

Security Fix(es):

• HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)
  
• HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Workstation) 1 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server) 1 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 s390x
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1735645 - CVE-2019-9512 HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth
• BZ - 1735744 - CVE-2019-9514 HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth

CVEs

• CVE-2019-9512
• CVE-2019-9514

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important