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openSUSE Security Update : go (openSUSE-2016-907)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92596

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for go fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2015-5739: 'Content Length' treated as valid header

 - CVE-2015-5740: Double content-length headers does not return 400 error

 - CVE-2015-5741: Additional hardening, not sending Content-Length w/Transfer-Encoding, Closing connections

Go was updated to 1.4.3 with the following additional changes :

 - build: remove -Werror from cmd/dist

 - runtime: panic when accessing an empty struct value appended to an uninitialized slice

 - runtime: garbage collector found invalid heap pointer iterating over map

Solution

Update the affected go packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989630

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 92596

File Name: openSUSE-2016-907.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:go, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:go-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:go-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5739, CVE-2015-5740, CVE-2015-5741