RHEL 7 : go-toolset-1.15-golang (RHSA-2021:3431)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153098

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for go-toolset-1.15-golang.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3431 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* golang: net: incorrect parsing of extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address octet (CVE-2021-29923)

* golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names (CVE-2021-33195)

* golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)

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.

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 RHEL go-toolset-1.15-golang package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:3431.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 153098

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3431.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/7/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33195

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:H/A:N

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29923

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.15-golang-bin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.15-golang-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.15-golang-misc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.15-golang, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.15-golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.15-golang-race, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.15-golang-tests

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: 9/7/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29923, CVE-2021-33195, CVE-2021-33197

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2021:3431

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