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Debian DSA-4551-1 : golang-1.11 - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 130290

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Daniel Mandragona discovered that invalid DSA public keys can cause a panic in dsa.Verify(), resulting in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the golang-1.11 packages.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.6-1+deb10u3.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/golang-1.11

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/golang-1.11

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4551

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130290

File Name: debian_DSA-4551.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/28/2019

Updated: 4/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17596

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-1.11

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17596

DSA: 4551

IAVB: 2019-B-0085-S