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Red Hat RHSA-2018-1304-01 Moderate: Go Toolset-7 Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey May 3, 2018
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Hash: SHA1 Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: go-toolset-7 and go-toolset-7-golang securi
An update for go-toolset-7 and go-toolset-7-golang is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Go Toolset provides the Go programming language tools and libraries. Go is alternatively known as golang.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: go-toolset-7-golang (1.8.7). (BZ#1545319)
Go Toolset is provided as a Technology Preview.
Security Fix(es):
* golang: arbitrary code execution during "go get" via C compiler options (CVE-2018-6574)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed changes and information on usage, see Using Go Toolset linked from the References section. For information on scope of support, see the Technology Preview Features Support Scope document.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat code execution developer tools golang go toolset

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6574 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_developer_tools/2018.2/html/using_go_toolset/index https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview

Package List

Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: go-toolset-7-1.8-14.el7.src.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-1.8.7-2.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: go-toolset-7-1.8-14.el7.aarch64.rpm go-toolset-7-build-1.8-14.el7.aarch64.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-1.8.7-2.el7.aarch64.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-bin-1.8.7-2.el7.aarch64.rpm go-toolset-7-runtime-1.8-14.el7.aarch64.rpm go-toolset-7-scldevel-1.8-14.el7.aarch64.rpm
noarch: go-toolset-7-golang-docs-1.8.7-2.el7.noarch.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-misc-1.8.7-2.el7.noarch.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-src-1.8.7-2.el7.noarch.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-tests-1.8.7-2.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: go-toolset-7-1.8-14.el7.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-7-build-1.8-14.el7.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-1.8.7-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-bin-1.8.7-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-7-runtime-1.8-14.el7.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-7-scldevel-1.8-14.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: go-toolset-7-1.8-14.el7.s390x.rpm go-toolset-7-build-1.8-14.el7.s390x.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-1.8.7-2.el7.s390x.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-bin-1.8.7-2.el7.s390x.rpm go-toolset-7-runtime-1.8-14.el7.s390x.rpm go-toolset-7-scldevel-1.8-14.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: go-toolset-7-1.8-14.el7.src.rpm go-toolset-7-golang-1.8.7-2.el7.src.rpm
aarch64:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1304-01
Product: Red Hat Developer Tools
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1304
Issue date: 2018-05-03

Topic

An update for go-toolset-7 and go-toolset-7-golang is now available for RedHat Developer Tools.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat code execution developer tools golang go toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1536154 - go get functionality broken in devtools/go-toolset-7-rhel7 container

1543561 - CVE-2018-6574 golang: arbitrary code execution during "go get" via C compiler options

1550079 - scriptlet failure when installing go-toolset-7-runtime

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