Amazon Linux AMI : golang (ALAS-2024-1903)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187711

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of golang installed on the remote host is prior to 1.20.12-1.49. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2024-1903 advisory.

A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small. (CVE-2023-39326)

path/filepath: recognize \??\ as a Root Local Device path prefix.

On Windows, a path beginning with \??\ is a Root Local Device path equivalentto a path beginning with \\?\. Paths with a \??\ prefix may be used toaccess arbitrary locations on the system. For example, the path \??\c:\xis equivalent to the more common path c:\x.

The filepath package did not recognize paths with a \??\ prefix as special.

Clean could convert a rooted path such as \a\..\??\b intothe root local device path \??\b. It will now convert thispath into .\??\b.

IsAbs did not report paths beginning with \??\ as absolute.It now does so.

VolumeName now reports the \??\ prefix as a volume name.

Join(`\`, `??`, `b`) could convert a seemingly innocentsequence of path elements into the root local device path\??\b. It will now convert this to \.\??\b. (CVE-2023-45283)

path/filepath: recognize device names with trailing spaces and superscripts

The IsLocal function did not correctly detect reserved names in some cases:

- reserved names followed by spaces, such as COM1 .- COM or LPT followed by a superscript 1, 2, or 3.

IsLocal now correctly reports these names as non-local. (CVE-2023-45284)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update golang' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187711

File Name: ala_ALAS-2024-1903.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/9/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45283

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-tests, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-shared, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-misc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39326, CVE-2023-45283, CVE-2023-45284

IAVB: 2023-B-0096-S

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