The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1819 advisory.

    Go Toolset provides the Go programming language tools and libraries. Go is alternatively known as golang.

    Security Fix(es):

    * golang: Command-line arguments may overwrite global data (CVE-2021-38297)

    * golang: archive/zip: malformed archive may cause panic or memory exhaustion (incomplete fix of     CVE-2021-33196) (CVE-2021-39293)

    * golang: debug/macho: invalid dynamic symbol table command can cause panic (CVE-2021-41771)

    * golang: archive/zip: Reader.Open panics on empty string (CVE-2021-41772)

    * golang: math/big: uncontrolled memory consumption due to an unhandled overflow via Rat.SetString     (CVE-2022-23772)

    * golang: cmd/go: misinterpretation of branch names can lead to incorrect access control (CVE-2022-23773)

    * golang: crypto/elliptic IsOnCurve returns true for invalid field elements (CVE-2022-23806)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : go-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2022:1819)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161000

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Version 1.10 Mar 13, 2025, 9:08 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202503132108
Version 1.8 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.7 Oct 27, 2023, 4:19 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202310271619
Version 1.6 Jan 23, 2023, 9:47 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301232147