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Mageia: 2019-0310 Critical: Golang Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised Go libraries tackle service interruption caused by incorrect DSA key usage. Patch issued on November 2, 2019.
Updated golang packages fix security vulnerability: Daniel Mandragona discovered that invalid DSA public keys can cause a panic in dsa.Verify(), resulting in denial of service (CV...

Summary

Updated golang packages fix security vulnerability:
Daniel Mandragona discovered that invalid DSA public keys can cause a panic in dsa.Verify(), resulting in denial of service (CVE-2019-17596).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25616

- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-announce/lVEm7llp0w0/VbafyRkgCgAJ

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2019/msg00203.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17596

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update mageia go application dsa verification

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/golang-1.12.11-1.mga7

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Publication date: 02 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0310.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-17596

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update mageia go application dsa verification

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