RHSA-2020:3665 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: go-toolset:rhel8 security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · September 8, 2020
Updated · November 4, 2026
Topic
An update for the go-toolset:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
Security Fix(es):
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golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
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golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-15586)
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golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)
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.