RHSA-2018:1304 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for go-toolset-7 and go-toolset-7-golang is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Workstation) 1 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server) 1 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 s390x
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1536154 - go get functionality broken in devtools/go-toolset-7-rhel7 container
• BZ - 1543561 - CVE-2018-6574 golang: arbitrary code execution during "go get" via C compiler options
• BZ - 1550079 - scriptlet failure when installing go-toolset-7-runtime

CVEs

• CVE-2018-6574

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_tools/2018.2/html/using_go_toolset/
• https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/