Synopsis
Moderate: go-toolset:rhel8 security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
An update for the go-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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.
Security Fix(es):
- golang: default Content-Type setting in net/http/cgi and net/http/fcgi could cause XSS (CVE-2020-24553)
- golang: math/big: panic during recursive division of very large numbers (CVE-2020-28362)
- golang: malicious symbol names can lead to code execution at build time (CVE-2020-28366)
- golang: improper validation of cgo flags can lead to code execution at build time (CVE-2020-28367)
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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
Fixes
- BZ - 1874857 - CVE-2020-24553 golang: default Content-Type setting in net/http/cgi and net/http/fcgi could cause XSS
- BZ - 1897635 - CVE-2020-28362 golang: math/big: panic during recursive division of very large numbers
- BZ - 1897643 - CVE-2020-28366 golang: malicious symbol names can lead to code execution at build time
- BZ - 1897646 - CVE-2020-28367 golang: improper validation of cgo flags can lead to code execution at build time
CVEs
References
Vulmon