Issued:

2023-10-16

Updated:

2023-10-16

RHSA-2023:5738 - Important: go-toolset and golang security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: go-toolset and golang security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for go-toolset and golang is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work [CVE-2023-44487] (CVE-2023-39325)

• HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

• golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys (CVE-2023-29409)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Midstream dist-git patches (BZ#2223637)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• golang-bin-1.19.13-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• golang-1.19.13-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• golang-docs-1.19.13-1.el9_2.noarch.rpm
• golang-tests-1.19.13-1.el9_2.noarch.rpm
• go-toolset-1.19.13-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• go-toolset-1.19.13-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• go-toolset-1.19.13-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• go-toolset-1.19.13-1.el9_2.src.rpm
• golang-1.19.13-1.el9_2.src.rpm
• golang-bin-1.19.13-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• golang-misc-1.19.13-1.el9_2.noarch.rpm
• golang-1.19.13-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• go-toolset-1.19.13-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• golang-bin-1.19.13-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• golang-race-1.19.13-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• golang-1.19.13-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• golang-1.19.13-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• golang-bin-1.19.13-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• golang-src-1.19.13-1.el9_2.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2228743
• This content is not included.BZ - 2242803
• This content is not included.BZ - 2243296

CVEs

• CVE-2023-29406
• CVE-2023-29409
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-44487

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.