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Red Hat: RHSA-2021-5176-01 Important: Go-Toolset-1.16 Golang Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2021
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Red Hat revealed a significant upgrade for go-toolset-1.16, addressing critical security flaws within the toolset.
An update for go-toolset-1.16 and go-toolset-1.16-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.
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 [devtools-2021.4.z] (BZ#2031148)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix security fix important golang 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 Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: go-toolset-1.16-1.16.12-1.el7_9.src.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-1.16.12-1.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: go-toolset-1.16-golang-docs-1.16.12-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: go-toolset-1.16-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-build-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-bin-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-misc-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-src-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-tests-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-runtime-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm go-toolset-1.16-scldevel-1.16.12-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: go-toolset-1.16-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-build-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-bin-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-misc-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-src-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-golang-tests-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-runtime-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm go-toolset-1.16-scldevel-1.16.12-1.el7_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: go-toolset-1.16-1.16.12-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm go-toolset-1.16-build-1.16.12-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5176-01
Product: Red Hat Developer Tools
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5176
Issue date: 2021-12-16

Topic

An update for go-toolset-1.16 and go-toolset-1.16-golang is now availablefor Red Hat Developer Tools.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 Red Hat bug fix security fix important golang go-toolset

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - 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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