Moderate: go-toolset-1.17 and go-toolset-1.17-golang security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for go-toolset-1.17 and go-toolset-1.17-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.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in Decode (CVE-2022-24675)
• golang: regexp: stack exhaustion via a deeply nested expression (CVE-2022-24921)
• golang: crypto/elliptic: panic caused by oversized scalar (CVE-2022-28327)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Update to Go 1.17.10 (BZ#2091072)

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 - 2064857 - CVE-2022-24921 golang: regexp: stack exhaustion via a deeply nested expression
• BZ - 2077688 - CVE-2022-24675 golang: encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in Decode
• BZ - 2077689 - CVE-2022-28327 golang: crypto/elliptic: panic caused by oversized scalar

CVEs

• CVE-2022-24675
• CVE-2022-24921
• CVE-2022-28327

References

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