RHEL 7 : go-toolset-1.17 and go-toolset-1.17-golang (RHSA-2022:5415)

high Nessus Plugin ID 162622

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for go-toolset-1.17 / go-toolset-1.17-golang.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5415 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* golang: encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in Decode (CVE-2022-24675)

* golang: regexp: stack exhaustion via a deeply nested expression (CVE-2022-24921)

* golang: crypto/elliptic: panic caused by oversized scalar (CVE-2022-28327)

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):

* Update to Go 1.17.10 (BZ#2091072)

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-1.17 / go-toolset-1.17-golang packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:5415.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee07b074

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5415

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064857

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077688

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077689

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 162622

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-5415.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/30/2022

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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28327

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.17-golang-misc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.17-golang-race, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.17-golang-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.17-golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.17-golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.17-golang-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.17-golang

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24675, CVE-2022-24921, CVE-2022-28327

CWE: 120, 190, 400

RHSA: 2022:5415