Moderate: go-toolset-1.18 security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-2879   CVE-2022-2880   CVE-2022-41715  

Synopsis

Moderate: go-toolset-1.18 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for go-toolset-1.18 and go-toolset-1.18-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: archive/tar: unbounded memory consumption when reading headers (CVE-2022-2879)
  • golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy should not forward unparseable query parameters (CVE-2022-2880)
  • golang: regexp/syntax: limit memory used by parsing regexps (CVE-2022-41715)

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):

  • crypto testcases fail on golang on s390x [devtools-2022.4] (BZ#2149315)
  • Internal linking fails on ppc64le [devtools-2022.4] (BZ#2161298)

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 - 2132867 - CVE-2022-2879 golang: archive/tar: unbounded memory consumption when reading headers
  • BZ - 2132868 - CVE-2022-2880 golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy should not forward unparseable query parameters
  • BZ - 2132872 - CVE-2022-41715 golang: regexp/syntax: limit memory used by parsing regexps
  • BZ - 2137549 - patch version mismatch between 'go version', go-toolset and golang packages [devtools-2022.4]
  • BZ - 2149315 - crypto testcases fail on golang on s390x [devtools-2022.4]