The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0878 advisory.

    The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: golang (1.9.4). (BZ#1479095,     BZ#1499827)

    Security Fix(es):

    * golang: arbitrary code execution during go get or go get -d (CVE-2017-15041)

    * golang: smtp.PlainAuth susceptible to man-in-the-middle password harvesting (CVE-2017-15042)

    * golang: arbitrary code execution during go get via C compiler options (CVE-2018-6574)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : golang (RHSA-2018:0878)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 108990

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