RHEL 7 : go-toolset-1.18 (RHSA-2023:0445)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170630

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for go-toolset-1.18.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0445 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* golang: archive/tar: unbounded memory consumption when reading headers (CVE-2022-2879)

* golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy should not forward unparseable query parameters (CVE-2022-2880)

* golang: regexp/syntax: limit memory used by parsing regexps (CVE-2022-41715)

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):

* crypto testcases fail on golang on s390x [devtools-2022.4] (BZ#2149315)

* Internal linking fails on ppc64le [devtools-2022.4] (BZ#2161298)

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-1.18 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:0445.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170630

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0445.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/25/2023

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2880

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-golang-tests, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-golang, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-golang-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-build, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-golang-misc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-scldevel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset-1.18-golang-race

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: 1/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2879, CVE-2022-2880, CVE-2022-41715

CWE: 444, 770

RHSA: 2023:0445

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