RHSA-2024:0887 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the go-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests (CVE-2023-39326)
• golang: cmd/go: Protocol Fallback when fetching modules (CVE-2023-45285)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2253323 - CVE-2023-45285 golang: cmd/go: Protocol Fallback when fetching modules
• BZ - 2253330 - CVE-2023-39326 golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests

CVEs

• CVE-2023-39326
• CVE-2023-45285

References

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