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Debian DLA-1664-1 : golang security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 121626

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability or possibly even the ability to conduct private key recovery attacks within in the elliptic curve cryptography handling in the Go programming language libraries.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in golang version 2:1.3.3-1+deb8u1.

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/2019/02/msg00009.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121626

File Name: debian_DLA-1664.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2019

Updated: 6/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6486

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-netbsd-386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-netbsd-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-windows-386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-darwin-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-mode, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-freebsd-386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-windows-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-freebsd-arm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-linux-arm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-linux-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kate-syntax-go, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-linux-386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-freebsd-amd64, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-go-darwin-386, 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: 2/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6486