Debian DLA-2459-1 : golang-1.7 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 143170

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Two issues have been found in golang-1.7, a Go programming language compiler version 1.7

CVE-2020-15586 Using the 100-continue in HTTP headers received by a net/http/Server can lead to a data race involving the connection's buffered writer.

CVE-2020-16845 Certain invalid inputs to ReadUvarint or ReadVarint could cause those functions to read an unlimited number of bytes from the ByteReader argument before returning an error.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.4-2+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your golang-1.7 packages.

For the detailed security status of golang-1.7 please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/golang-1.7

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00037.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/golang-1.7

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/golang-1.7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 143170

File Name: debian_DLA-2459.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/23/2020

Updated: 11/25/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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 Score Source: CVE-2020-16845

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-1.7, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-1.7-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-1.7-go, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-1.7-src

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15586, CVE-2020-16845