Fedora 36 : golang (2023-7442702a7d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173929

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-7442702a7d advisory.

go1.19.7 (released 2023-03-07) includes a security fix to the crypto/elliptic package, as well as bug fixes to the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/x509 and syscall packages. See the [Go 1.19.7 milestone on the upstream issue tracker](https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.19.7) 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-2023-7442702a7d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 173929

File Name: fedora_2023-7442702a7d.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/6/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36, 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

Reference Information