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openSUSE: 2021:4186-1 Moderate: Go1.17 ForkExec Error Fix

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2021
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Address two vulnerabilities in openSUSE's go1.17 through this recent security patch aimed at enhancing system security.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for go1.17 fixes the following issues:

Updated to upstream version 1.17.5 to include fixes to the compiler,

linker, syscall, runtime, the net/http, go/types, and time packages

(bsc#1190649)

- 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 system patch openSUSE Go programming ForkExec error header cache

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-15.3-2021-4186=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

go1.17-1.17.5-1.14.2

go1.17-doc-1.17.5-1.14.2

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

go1.17-race-1.17.5-1.14.2

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/1190649

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193597

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193598

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:4186-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity system patch openSUSE Go programming ForkExec error header cache

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