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RedHat: RHSA-2020-3665-01 Moderate: go-toolset:rhel8 DoS and Crash Issues

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 resolves several vulnerabilities found in the go-toolset:rhel8 component.
An update for the go-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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.
Security Fix(es):
* golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
* golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-15586)
* golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity infinite loop go-toolset

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15586 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16845 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: delve-1.3.2-3.module+el8.2.0+5581+896cb53e.src.rpm go-toolset-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.src.rpm golang-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.src.rpm
aarch64: go-toolset-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.aarch64.rpm golang-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.aarch64.rpm golang-bin-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.aarch64.rpm
noarch: golang-docs-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.noarch.rpm golang-misc-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.noarch.rpm golang-src-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.noarch.rpm golang-tests-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: go-toolset-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.ppc64le.rpm golang-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.ppc64le.rpm golang-bin-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: go-toolset-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.s390x.rpm golang-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.s390x.rpm golang-bin-1.13.15-1.module+el8.2.0+7662+fa98b974.s390x.rpm
x86_64: delve-1.3.2-3.module+el8.2.0+5581+896cb53e.x86_64.rpm delve-debuginfo-1.3.2-3.module+el8.2.0+5581+896cb53e.x86_64.rpm delve-debugsource-1.3.2-3.module+el8.2.0+5581+896cb53e.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3665-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3665
Issue date: 2020-09-08

Topic

An update for the go-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity infinite loop go-toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash

1856953 - CVE-2020-15586 golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS

1867099 - CVE-2020-16845 golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs

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