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Fedora 38 : golang (2023-8ee7d4a8e3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173801

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-8ee7d4a8e3 advisory.

 go1.20.2 (released 2023-03-07) includes a security fix to the crypto/elliptic package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the covdata command, the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/ecdh, crypto/rsa, crypto/x509, os, and syscall packages. See the [Go 1.20.2 milestone on the upstream issue](https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.20.2) tracker 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-2023-8ee7d4a8e3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 173801

File Name: fedora_2023-8ee7d4a8e3.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:golang

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2023

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