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MiracleLinux 7 : golang-1.8.3-1.el7 (AXSA:2017-2315:02)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 288934

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2017-2315:02 advisory.

 * 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 Asianux Server 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.
 CVE-2017-8932 A bug in the standard library ScalarMult implementation of curve P-256 for amd64 architectures in Go before 1.7.6 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 causes incorrect results to be generated for specific input points. An adaptive attack can be mounted to progressively extract the scalar input to ScalarMult by submitting crafted points and observing failures to the derive correct output. This leads to a full key recovery attack against static ECDH, as used in popular JWT libraries.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/8755

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 288934

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2017-2315.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8932

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8932