RHSA-2021:5160 — Security Advisory

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 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.

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

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache (CVE-2021-44716)

• golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error (CVE-2021-44717)

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):

• Rebase Go to 1.16.12 (BZ#2031125)