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openSUSE Leap 15.3 & 15.4: 2022:0724-1 Important: Go1.16 Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey March 4, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important announcement regarding go1.16 for openSUSE, resolving various concerns and enhancing security features. Take immediate action to protect your environment!
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for go1.16 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2022-23806: Fixed incorrect returned value in crypto/elliptic

IsOnCurve (bsc#1195838).

- CVE-2022-23772: Fixed overflow in Rat.SetString in math/big can lead to

uncontrolled memory consumption (bsc#1195835).

- CVE-2022-23773: Fixed incorrect access control in cmd/go (bsc#1195834).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

- go#50977 crypto/elliptic: IsOnCurve returns true for invalid field

elements

- go#50700 math/big: Rat.SetString may consume large amount of RAM and

crash

- go#50686 cmd/go: do not treat branches with semantic-version names as

releases

- go#50866 cmd/compile: incorrect use of CMN on arm64

- go#50832 runtime/race: NoRaceMutexPureHappensBefore failures

- go#50811 cmd/go: remove bitbucket VCS probing

- go#50780 runtime: incorrect frame information in traceback traversal may

hang the process.

- go#50721 debug/pe: reading debug_info section...

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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 15.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2022-724=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-724=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

go1.16-1.16.14-1.43.1

go1.16-doc-1.16.14-1.43.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 x86_64):

go1.16-race-1.16.14-1.43.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

go1.16-1.16.14-1.43.1

go1.16-doc-1.16.14-1.43.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

go1.16-race-1.16.14-1.43.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23772.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23773.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-23806.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182345

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195834

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195835

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1195838

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:0724-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 openSUSE Leap 15.4 ble.

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