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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:2788-1 Moderate: Go1.16 Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2021
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openSUSE Security Patch for go1.16 addresses vulnerabilities assessed as moderate, with instructions for installation provided.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update patch openSUSE errata go1.16

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-15.3-2021-2788=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

go1.16-1.16.7-1.23.1

go1.16-doc-1.16.7-1.23.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

go1.16-race-1.16.7-1.23.1

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-2021:2788-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update patch openSUSE errata go1.16

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