Ubuntu 6886-1: Go Security Advisory Updates
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Go. Software Description: - golang-1.21: Go programming language compiler - golang-1.22: Go programming language compiler Details: It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly handle the requests when request\'s headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-45288) It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly validate the subdomain match or exact match of the initial domain. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-45289) It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly validate the total size of the parsed form when parsing a multipart form. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-45290) It was discovered that the Go crypto/x509 module did not properly handle a certificate chain which contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-24783) It was discovered that the Go net/mail module did not properly handle comments within display names in the ParseAddressList function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-24784) It was discovered that the Go html/template module did not validate errors returned from MarshalJSON methods. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code into the Go template. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-24785) It was discovered that the Go net module did not properly validate the DNS message in response to a query. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.22. (CVE-2024-24788) It was discovered that the Go archive/zip module did not properly handle certain types of invalid zip files differs from the behavior of most zip implementations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. (CVE-2024-24789) It was discovered that the Go net/netip module did not work as expected for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in various Is methods. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. (CVE-2024-24790)
Update Instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS golang-1.21 1.21.9-1ubuntu0.1 golang-1.21-go 1.21.9-1ubuntu0.1 golang-1.21-src 1.21.9-1ubuntu0.1 golang-1.22 1.22.2-2ubuntu0.1 golang-1.22-go 1.22.2-2ubuntu0.1 golang-1.22-src 1.22.2-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS golang-1.21 1.21.1-1~ubuntu22.04.3 golang-1.21-go 1.21.1-1~ubuntu22.04.3 golang-1.21-src 1.21.1-1~ubuntu22.04.3 golang-1.22 1.22.2-2~22.04.1 golang-1.22-go 1.22.2-2~22.04.1 golang-1.22-src 1.22.2-2~22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS golang-1.21 1.21.1-1~ubuntu20.04.3 golang-1.21-go 1.21.1-1~ubuntu20.04.3 golang-1.21-src 1.21.1-1~ubuntu20.04.3 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6886-1
CVE-2023-45288, CVE-2023-45289, CVE-2023-45290, CVE-2024-24783,
CVE-2024-24784, CVE-2024-24785, CVE-2024-24788, CVE-2024-24789,
CVE-2024-24790
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Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-1.21/1.21.9-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-1.22/1.22.2-2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-1.21/1.21.1-1~ubuntu22.04.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-1.22/1.22.2-2~22.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-1.21/1.21.1-1~ubuntu20.04.3