Moderate: go-toolset:rhel8 security and bug fix update

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: 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):

• Internal linking fails on ppc64le (BZ#2144545)
• crypto testcases fail on golang on s390x [rhel-8] (BZ#2149313)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

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 - 2139718 - patch version mismatch between 'go version' and go-toolset/golang packages [rhel-8.7] [rhel-8.7.0.z]
• BZ - 2149313 - crypto testcases fail on golang on s390x [rhel-8] [rhel-8.7.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2879
• CVE-2022-2880
• CVE-2022-41715

References

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