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Mageia 8 Advisory 2021-0369: Golang Remote DoS and Memory Concerns

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Discover the latest Mageia security alert outlining essential golang updates for vulnerabilities uncovered on July 25, 2021, emphasizing crucial patches to bolster security
encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element

Summary

encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode, DecodeElement, or Skip method (CVE-2021-27918).
net/http in Go before 1.15.12 and 1.16.x before 1.16.4 allows remote attackersto cause a denial of service (panic) via a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse. Server, Transport, and Client can each be affected in some configurations (CVE-2021-31525).
A security issue has been found in Go before version 1.16.5. The LookupCNAME, LookupSRV, LookupMX, LookupNS, and LookupAddr functions in net, and their respective methods on the Resolver type may return arbitrary values retrieved from DNS which do not follow the established RFC 1035 rules for domain names. If these names are used without further sanitization, for instance unsafely included in HTML, they may allow for injection of unexpected content. Note that LookupTXT may still return ...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29037

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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/QLUQXBCOPWP72ZSS3SM3CTURM7XOYALQ/

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27918

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31525

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33195

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33196

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33197

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33198

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-34558

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/golang-1.15.14-1.mga8

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Publication date: 25 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0369.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-27918, CVE-2021-31525, CVE-2021-33195, CVE-2021-33196, CVE-2021-33197, CVE-2021-33198, CVE-2021-34558

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