SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : go1.20 (SUSE-SU-2023:2105-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 175158

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2105-1 advisory.

Update to 1.20.4 (bnc#1206346):
- CVE-2023-24539: Fixed an improper sanitization of CSS values (boo#1211029).
- CVE-2023-24540: Fixed an improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (boo#1211030).
- CVE-2023-29400: Fixed an improper handling of empty HTML attributes (boo#1211031).
- runtime: automatically bump RLIMIT_NOFILE on Unix.
- crypto/subtle: xor fails when run with race+purego.
- cmd/compile: encoding/binary.PutUint16 sometimes doesn't write.
- cmd/compile: internal compiler error: cannot call SetType(go.shape.int) on v (type int).
- cmd/compile: miscompilation in star-tex.org/x/cmd/star-tex.
- net/http: FileServer no longer serves content for POST.
- crypto/tls: TLSv1.3 connection fails with invalid PSK binder.
- cmd/compile: incorrect inline function variable.
- cmd/compile: Unified IR exports table is binary unstable in presence of generics.
- go/internal/gcimporter: lookupGorootExport should use the go command from build.Default.GOROOT.

Non-security fixes:

- Reverted go1.x Suggests go1.x-race (boo#1210963).
- Re-enabled binary stripping and debuginfo (boo#1210938).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected go1.20, go1.20-doc and / or go1.20-race packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 175158

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2105-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/6/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.48

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24540

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:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:go1.20, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:go1.20-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:go1.20-race

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-24540, CVE-2023-29400

IAVB: 2023-B-0080-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2105-1

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