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openSUSE 15.2: 2021:1199-1 Moderate: Go1.16 Panic Issue

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE releases tackle a significant fault in Go version 1.16, remedying CVE-2021-36221 along with various additional bugs.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for go1.16 fixes the following issues:

Update to go1.16.7:

- go#47473 net/http: panic due to racy read of persistConn after handler

panic (CVE-2021-36221 bsc#1189162)

- go#47348 cmd/go: "go list -f '{{.Stale}}'" stack overflow with cyclic

imports

- go#47332 time: Timer reset broken under heavy use since go1.16 timer

optimizations added

- go#47289 cmd/link: build error with cgo in Windows, redefinition of

go.map.zero

- go#47015 cmd/go: go mod vendor: open C:\Users\LICENSE: Access is denied.

- go#46928 cmd/compile: register conflict between external linker and

duffzero on arm64

- go#46858 runtime: ppc64x binaries randomly segfault on linux 5.13rc6

- go#46551 cmd/go: unhelpful error message when running "go install" on a

replaced-but-not-required package

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update moderate severity openSUSE panic issue Go software

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1199=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

go1.16-1.16.7-lp152.8.1

go1.16-doc-1.16.7-lp152.8.1

go1.16-race-1.16.7-lp152.8.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36221.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182345

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189162

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1199-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update moderate severity openSUSE panic issue Go software

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