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Fedora 37 : golang (2023-559bf2c9f3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171615

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-559bf2c9f3 advisory.

 go1.19.6 (released 2023-02-14) includes security fixes to the crypto/tls, mime/multipart, net/http, and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the go command, the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/x509, net/http, and time packages. See the [Go 1.19.6 milestone on the upstream issue tracker](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.19.6+label%3ACherryPickApproved+) for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected golang package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-559bf2c9f3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171615

File Name: fedora_2023-559bf2c9f3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/17/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, continuous_assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:golang, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2023

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