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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2186-1 Important Fixes for Go1.16

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Calendar Grey June 28, 2021
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Essential safety patch for openSUSE Leap 15.3 tackling critical flaws in go1.16. Immediate installation advised.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for go1.16 fixes the following issues:

Update to 1.16.5.

Includes these security fixes

- CVE-2021-33195: net: Lookup functions may return invalid host names

(bsc#1187443).

- CVE-2021-33196: archive/zip: malformed archive may cause panic or memory

exhaustion (bsc#1186622).

- CVE-2021-33197: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards Connection

headers if first one is empty (bsc#1187444)

- CVE-2021-33198: math/big: (*Rat).SetString with

"1.770p02041010010011001001" crashes with "makeslice: len out of range"

(bsc#1187445).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix important openSUSE Leap go language

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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2186=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

go1.16-1.16.5-1.17.1

go1.16-doc-1.16.5-1.17.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

go1.16-race-1.16.5-1.17.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33195.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33196.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33197.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33198.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182345

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186622

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187443

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187444

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187445

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2186-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix important openSUSE Leap go language

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