Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6913-03 - An update for golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: golang security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:6913-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6913
Issue date: 2024-09-24
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-24791
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Summary:
An update for golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.
Description:
The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.
Security Fix(es):
* net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http (CVE-2024-24791)
* go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)
* encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34156)
* go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a \"// +build\" build tag line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2024-24791
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295310
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310527
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310528
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310529