RHSA-2023:3923 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: go-toolset and golang security update

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · June 29, 2023

Updated · February 28, 2026

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 Critical. 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: cmd/go: go command may generate unexpected code at build time when using cgo (CVE-2023-29402)
golang: cmd/go: go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo (CVE-2023-29404)
golang: cmd/cgo: Arbitratry code execution triggered by linker flags (CVE-2023-29405)
golang: runtime: unexpected behavior of setuid/setgid binaries (CVE-2023-29403)

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.