RHSA-2023:3923 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for go-toolset and golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: cmd/go: go command may generate unexpected code at build time when using cgo (CVE-2023-29402)
• golang: cmd/go: go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo (CVE-2023-29404)
• golang: cmd/cgo: Arbitratry code execution triggered by linker flags (CVE-2023-29405)
• golang: runtime: unexpected behavior of setuid/setgid binaries (CVE-2023-29403)

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.

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2216965 - CVE-2023-29403 golang: runtime: unexpected behavior of setuid/setgid binaries
• BZ - 2217562 - CVE-2023-29402 golang: cmd/go: go command may generate unexpected code at build time when using cgo
• BZ - 2217565 - CVE-2023-29404 golang: cmd/go: go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo
• BZ - 2217569 - CVE-2023-29405 golang: cmd/cgo: Arbitratry code execution triggered by linker flags

CVEs

• CVE-2023-29402
• CVE-2023-29403
• CVE-2023-29404
• CVE-2023-29405

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical