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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Go vulnerabilities (USN-7061-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 208702

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7061-1 advisory.

 Hunter Wittenborn discovered that Go incorrectly handled the sanitization of environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to run arbitrary commands. (CVE-2023-24531)

 Sohom Datta 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. (CVE-2023-24538)

 Juho Nurminen discovered that Go incorrectly handled certain special characters in directory or file paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject code into the resulting binaries.
 (CVE-2023-29402)

 Vincent Dehors discovered that Go incorrectly handled permission bits. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read or write files with elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-29403)

 Juho Nurminen discovered that Go incorrectly handled certain crafted arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code at build time. (CVE-2023-29405)

 It was discovered that Go incorrectly validated the contents of host headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject additional headers or entire requests. (CVE-2023-29406)

 Takeshi Kaneko discovered that Go did not properly handle comments and special tags in the script context of html/template module. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject Javascript code and perform a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2023-39318, CVE-2023-39319)

 It was discovered that Go did not limit the number of simultaneously executing handler goroutines in the net/http module. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-39325)

 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.
 (CVE-2024-24785)

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 golang-1.17, golang-1.17-go and / or golang-1.17-src packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7061-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 208702

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7061-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2024

Updated: 10/10/2024

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-2023-29405

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-1.17, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.17-go, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.17-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: 10/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24531, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-29402, CVE-2023-29403, CVE-2023-29404, CVE-2023-29405, CVE-2023-29406, CVE-2023-39318, CVE-2023-39319, CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2024-24785

USN: 7061-1