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Debian Wheezy: DLA-1123-1 Critical: Golang File Descriptors Threat

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
To address the Go programming security flaw on Debian Wheezy, take essential steps to mitigate vulnerabilities and safeguard sensitive data against threats
It was discovered that there was an issue in the Go programming language library where an attacker could generate a MIME request such that the server ran out of file descriptors
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Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in golang version
2:1.0.2-1.1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your golang packages.


Regards,

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Package: golang
Version: 2:1.0.2-1.1+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-1000098

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