RHSA-2021:5176 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for go-toolset-1.16 and go-toolset-1.16-golang is now available for Red Hat Developer Tools.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

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)

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

Fixes

• BZ - 2030801 - CVE-2021-44716 golang: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache
• BZ - 2030806 - CVE-2021-44717 golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error

CVEs

• CVE-2021-41772
• CVE-2021-44716
• CVE-2021-44717

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_tools/1/html/using_go_1.16.6_toolset