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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Go vulnerabilities (USN-7081-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209556

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Synopsis

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

Description

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-7081-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly handle

 responses to requests with an Expect: 100-continue header under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-24791)

 It was discovered that the Go parser module did not properly handle deeply nested literal values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-34155)

 It was discovered that the Go encoding/gob module did not properly handle message decoding under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-34156)

 It was discovered that the Go build module did not properly handle certain build tag lines with deeply nested expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-34158)

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-1.22, golang-1.22-go and / or golang-1.22-src packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7081-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209556

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7081-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/23/2024

Updated: 10/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34156

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34158

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.22-go, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.22, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-1.22-src, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24791, CVE-2024-34155, CVE-2024-34156, CVE-2024-34158

USN: 7081-1