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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-5160-04 Important Go Fix

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The go-toolset has received an important update in RHEL 8, addressing both security vulnerabilities and various bug fixes. Details regarding the installation process are provided.
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: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache (CVE-2021-44716)
* golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error (CVE-2021-44717)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* Rebase Go to 1.16.12 (BZ#2031125)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue red hat bug fix important rhel go-toolset

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44716 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44717 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: delve-1.6.0-1.module+el8.5.0+10379+d6b83bd0.src.rpm go-toolset-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.src.rpm golang-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.src.rpm
aarch64: go-toolset-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.aarch64.rpm golang-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.aarch64.rpm golang-bin-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.aarch64.rpm
noarch: golang-docs-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.noarch.rpm golang-misc-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.noarch.rpm golang-src-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.noarch.rpm golang-tests-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: go-toolset-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.ppc64le.rpm golang-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.ppc64le.rpm golang-bin-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: go-toolset-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.s390x.rpm golang-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.s390x.rpm golang-bin-1.16.12-1.module+el8.5.0+13637+960c7771.s390x.rpm
x86_64: delve-1.6.0-1.module+el8.5.0+10379+d6b83bd0.x86_64.rpm delve-debuginfo-1.6.0-1.module+el8.5.0+10379+d6b83bd0.x86_64.rpm delve-debugsource-1.6.0-1.module+el8.5.0+10379+d6b83bd0.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5160-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5160
Issue date: 2021-12-15

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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue red hat bug fix important rhel go-toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2030801 - CVE-2021-44716 golang: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache

2030806 - CVE-2021-44717 golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error

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