RHSA-2022:1819 — 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 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.

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

Security Fix(es):

• golang: Command-line arguments may overwrite global data (CVE-2021-38297)

• golang: archive/zip: malformed archive may cause panic or memory exhaustion (incomplete fix of CVE-2021-33196) (CVE-2021-39293)

• golang: debug/macho: invalid dynamic symbol table command can cause panic (CVE-2021-41771)

• golang: archive/zip: Reader.Open panics on empty string (CVE-2021-41772)

• golang: math/big: uncontrolled memory consumption due to an unhandled overflow via Rat.SetString (CVE-2022-23772)

• golang: cmd/go: misinterpretation of branch names can lead to incorrect access control (CVE-2022-23773)

• golang: crypto/elliptic IsOnCurve returns true for invalid field elements (CVE-2022-23806)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.