The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6886-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly handle the requests when request\'s headers     exceed MaxHeaderBytes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial     of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-45288)

    It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly validate the subdomain match or exact match     of the initial domain. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information. This issue     only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-45289)

    It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly validate the total size of the parsed form     when parsing a multipart form. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a     denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2023-45290)

    It was discovered that the Go crypto/x509 module did not properly handle a certificate chain which     contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-24783)

    It was discovered that the Go net/mail module did not properly handle comments within display names in the     ParseAddressList function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a     denial of service. This issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2024-24784)

    It was discovered that the Go html/template module did not validate errors returned from MarshalJSON     methods. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code into the Go template. This     issue only affected Go 1.21 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-24785)

    It was discovered that the Go net module did not properly validate the DNS message in response to a query.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. This issue     only affected Go 1.22. (CVE-2024-24788)

    It was discovered that the Go archive/zip module did not properly handle certain types of invalid zip     files differs from the behavior of most zip implementations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a panic resulting into a denial of service. (CVE-2024-24789)

    It was discovered that the Go net/netip module did not work as expected for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses in     various Is methods. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting into a denial of     service. (CVE-2024-24790)

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.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Go vulnerabilities (USN-6886-1)

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