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CentOS 7 : golang (CESA-2016:1538) (httpoxy)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92680

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version:
golang (1.6.3). (BZ#1346331)

Security Fix(es) :

* An input-validation flaw was discovered in the Go programming language built in CGI implementation, which set the environment variable 'HTTP_PROXY' using the incoming 'Proxy' HTTP-request header.
The environment variable 'HTTP_PROXY' is used by numerous web clients, including Go's net/http package, to specify a proxy server to use for HTTP and, in some cases, HTTPS requests. This meant that when a CGI-based web application ran, an attacker could specify a proxy server which the application then used for subsequent outgoing requests, allowing a man-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2016-5386)

Red Hat would like to thank Scott Geary (VendHQ) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected golang packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e91e6b89

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 92680

File Name: centos_RHSA-2016-1538.nasl

Version: 2.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5739

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: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:golang-misc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:golang, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:golang-tests

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5739, CVE-2015-5740, CVE-2015-5741, CVE-2016-3959, CVE-2016-5386

RHSA: 2016:1538