The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5866 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)

    * golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)

    * golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions (CVE-2022-1962)

    * golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip (CVE-2022-28131)

    * golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)

    * golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)

    * golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal (CVE-2022-30633)

    * golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)

    * golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)

    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):

    * Clean up dist-git patches (BZ#2109172)

    * Update Go to version 1.17.12 (BZ#2109184)

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.

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RHEL 7 : go-toolset-1.17 and go-toolset-1.17-golang (RHSA-2022:5866)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 163709

Version 1.9