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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:4169-1 Moderate: Go1.16 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2021
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Addresses vulnerability concerns in go1.16 for openSUSE Leap 15.3, providing detailed guidance on updates.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for go1.16 fixes the following issues:

Updated to upstream version 1.16.12 to include security fixes to the

compiler, syscall, runtime, the net/http, net/http/httptest, and time

packages (bsc#1182345)

- CVE-2021-44717: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error

(bsc#1193598).

- CVE-2021-44716: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache

(bsc#1193597).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity openSUSE patch instructions Go programming

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-15.3-2021-4169=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

go1.16-1.16.12-1.37.2

go1.16-doc-1.16.12-1.37.2

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

go1.16-race-1.16.12-1.37.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44716.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44717.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182345

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193597

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193598

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:4169-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity openSUSE patch instructions Go programming

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