RHEL 8 : go-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:3076)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152448

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3076 advisory.

Go Toolset provides the Go programming language tools and libraries. Go is alternatively known as golang.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: golang (1.15.14). (BZ#1982287)

Security Fix(es):

* golang: encoding/xml: infinite loop when using xml.NewTokenDecoder with a custom TokenReader (CVE-2021-27918)

* golang: net/http: panic in ReadRequest and ReadResponse when reading a very large header (CVE-2021-31525)

* golang: archive/zip: malformed archive may cause panic or memory exhaustion (CVE-2021-33196)

* golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* FIPS mode AES CBC CryptBlocks incorrectly re-initializes IV in file crypto/internal/boring/aes.go (BZ#1978567)

* FIPS mode AES CBC Decrypter produces incorrect result (BZ#1983976)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152448

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3076.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/11/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2021-33196

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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-race, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:delve, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-bin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-misc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27918, CVE-2021-31525, CVE-2021-33196, CVE-2021-34558

CWE: 120, 20, 400, 835

IAVB: 2021-B-0040-S, 2021-B-0047-S

RHSA: 2021:3076

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