Moderate: go-toolset-1.12-golang security update

Synopsis

Moderate: go-toolset-1.12-golang security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for go-toolset-1.12 and go-toolset-1.12-golang is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: go-toolset-1.12-golang (1.12.12). (BZ#1759840, BZ#1785389)

Security Fix(es):

• golang: HTTP/1.1 headers with a space before the colon leads to filter bypass or request smuggling (CVE-2019-16276)
  
• golang: invalid public key causes panic in dsa.Verify (CVE-2019-17596)
  

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

Fixes

• BZ - 1755969 - CVE-2019-16276 golang: HTTP/1.1 headers with a space before the colon leads to filter bypass or request smuggling
• BZ - 1763310 - CVE-2019-17596 golang: invalid public key causes panic in dsa.Verify

CVEs

• CVE-2019-16276
• CVE-2019-17596

References

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