Important: go-toolset and golang security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for go-toolset and golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)
• golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)
• golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions (CVE-2022-1962)
• golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip (CVE-2022-28131)
• golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)
• golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)
• golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal (CVE-2022-30633)
• golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)
• golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)

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):

• Clean up dist-git patches (BZ#2109174)
• Update Go to version 1.17.12 (BZ#2109183)

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2107342 - CVE-2022-30631 golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read
• BZ - 2107371 - CVE-2022-30630 golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob
• BZ - 2107374 - CVE-2022-1705 golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header
• BZ - 2107376 - CVE-2022-1962 golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions
• BZ - 2107383 - CVE-2022-32148 golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working
• BZ - 2107386 - CVE-2022-30632 golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob
• BZ - 2107388 - CVE-2022-30635 golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode
• BZ - 2107390 - CVE-2022-28131 golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip
• BZ - 2107392 - CVE-2022-30633 golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1705
• CVE-2022-1962
• CVE-2022-28131
• CVE-2022-30630
• CVE-2022-30631
• CVE-2022-30632
• CVE-2022-30633
• CVE-2022-30635
• CVE-2022-32148

References

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