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Debian DLA-1148-1 : golang security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 104220

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Go before 1.8.4 and 1.9.x before 1.9.1 allows 'go get' remote command execution. Using custom domains, it is possible to arrange things so that example.com/pkg1 points to a Subversion repository but example.com/pkg1/pkg2 points to a Git repository. If the Subversion repository includes a Git checkout in its pkg2 directory and some other work is done to ensure the proper ordering of operations, 'go get' can be tricked into reusing this Git checkout for the fetch of code from pkg2. If the Subversion repository's Git checkout has malicious commands in .git/hooks/, they will execute on the system running 'go get.'

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.0.2-1.1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your golang packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/10/msg00027.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/golang

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 104220

File Name: debian_DLA-1148.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kate-syntax-go, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-mode, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:vim-syntax-go

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15041