Oracle Linux 7 : golang (ELSA-2017-1859)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102339

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2017:1859 :

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 later upstream version:
golang (1.8.3). (BZ#1414500)

Security Fix(es) :

* A carry propagation flaw was found in the implementation of the P-256 elliptic curve in golang. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to extract private keys when static ECDH was used.
(CVE-2017-8932)

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected golang packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2017-August/007108.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102339

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-1859.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2017

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:golang, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:golang-misc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:golang-tests, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000098, CVE-2017-8932

RHSA: 2017:1859