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Ubuntu 23.04 : Go vulnerabilities (USN-6140-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 176726

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6140-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Go did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected golang-1.19 on Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24537)

 It was discovered that Go did not properly validate the amount of memory and disk files ReadForm can consume. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected golang-1.19 on Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-41725)

 It was discovered that Go did not properly validate backticks (`) as Javascript string delimiters, and did not escape them as expected. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Javascript code into the Go template. This issue only affected golang-1.19 on Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-24538)

 It was discovered that Go did not properly validate the angle brackets in CSS values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary CSS code. (CVE-2023-24539)

 It was discovered that Go did not properly validate whitespace characters in Javascript, and did not escape them as expected. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Javascript code into the Go template. (CVE-2023-24540)

 It was discovered that Go did not properly validate HTML attributes with empty input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary HTML tags into the Go template. (CVE-2023-29400)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6140-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 176726

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6140-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24540

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.20, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.20-src, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.19-go, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.19, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.20-go, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.19-src

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2022-41725, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-24540, CVE-2023-29400

IAVB: 2023-B-0080-S

USN: 6140-1