RHSA-2024:2562 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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

The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.

Security Fix(es):

• golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads (CVE-2024-1394)
• golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)
• golang: net/http/cookiejar: incorrect forwarding of sensitive headers and cookies on HTTP redirect (CVE-2023-45289)
• golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)
• golang: net/mail: comments in display names are incorrectly handled (CVE-2024-24784)
• golang: html/template: errors returned from MarshalJSON methods may break template escaping (CVE-2024-24785)
• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS (CVE-2023-45288)

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

Fixes

• BZ - 2262921 - CVE-2024-1394 golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads
• BZ - 2268017 - CVE-2023-45290 golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm
• BZ - 2268018 - CVE-2023-45289 golang: net/http/cookiejar: incorrect forwarding of sensitive headers and cookies on HTTP redirect
• BZ - 2268019 - CVE-2024-24783 golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm
• BZ - 2268021 - CVE-2024-24784 golang: net/mail: comments in display names are incorrectly handled
• BZ - 2268022 - CVE-2024-24785 golang: html/template: errors returned from MarshalJSON methods may break template escaping
• BZ - 2268273 - CVE-2023-45288 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS

CVEs

• CVE-2023-45288
• CVE-2023-45289
• CVE-2023-45290
• CVE-2024-1394
• CVE-2024-24783
• CVE-2024-24784
• CVE-2024-24785

References

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