Debian 11 DLA-4056-1: golang-glog Link Risk, Moderate Severity

When logs are written to a widely-writable directory (the default), an
unprivileged attacker may predict a privileged process's log file path
and pre-create a symbolic link to a sensitive file in its place. When
that privileged process runs, it will follow the planted symlink and
overwrite that sensitive file. To fix that, glog now causes the program
to exit (with status code 2) when it finds that the configured log file
already exists.

For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version
0.0~git20160126.23def4e-3+deb11u1.


The following Go packages have been rebuilt in order to fix this
issue:

docker.io 20.10.5+dfsg1-1+deb11u4
golang-grpc-gateway 1.6.4-2+deb11u1
mtail 3.0.0~rc43-3+deb11u1
prometheus-mongodb-exporter 1.0.0+git20180522.e755a44-3+deb11u1

We recommend that you upgrade these packages.

For the detailed security status of golang-glog please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/golang-glog