USN-7061-1: Go vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Packages

• golang-1.17 - Go programming language compiler - metapackage

Details

Hunter Wittenborn discovered that Go incorrectly handled the sanitization
of environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to run
arbitrary commands. (CVE-2023-24531)

Sohom Datta discovered that Go did not properly validate backticks (`) as
Javascript string delimiters, and did not escape them as expected. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Javascript code
into the Go template. (CVE-2023-24538)

Juho Nurminen discovered that Go incorrectly handled certain special
characters in directory or file paths. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to inject code into the resulting binaries. (CVE-2023-29402)

Vincent Dehors discovered that Go incorrectly handled permission bits.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to read or write files with
elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-29403)

Juho Nurminen discovered that Go incorrectly handled certain crafted
arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary
code at build time. (CVE-2023-29405)

It was discovered that Go incorrectly validated the contents of host
headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject
additional headers or entire requests. (CVE-2023-29406)

Takeshi Kaneko discovered that Go did not properly handle comments and
special tags in the script context of html/template module. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to inject Javascript code and perform a
cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2023-39318, CVE-2023-39319)

It was discovered that Go did not limit the number of simultaneously
executing handler goroutines in the net/http module. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-39325)

It was discovered that the Go html/template module did not validate errors
returned from MarshalJSON methods. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to inject arbitrary code into the Go template. (CVE-2024-24785)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04

• golang-1.17 - 1.17.13-3ubuntu1.2
• golang-1.17-go - 1.17.13-3ubuntu1.2
• golang-1.17-src - 1.17.13-3ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2023-29405
• CVE-2023-29406
• CVE-2024-24785
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-29404
• CVE-2023-24531
• CVE-2023-29403
• CVE-2023-39318
• CVE-2023-24538
• CVE-2023-39319
• CVE-2023-29402

Related notices

• USN-6886-1: golang-1.22, golang-1.21-src, golang-1.22-src, golang-1.22-doc, golang-1.21, golang-1.21-go, golang-1.22-go, golang-1.21-doc
• USN-6574-1: golang-1.21-src, golang-1.20-go, golang-1.21, golang-1.20-src, golang-1.21-go, golang-1.20, golang-1.20-doc, golang-1.21-doc
• USN-6038-1: golang-1.18-go, golang-1.18, golang-1.18-doc, golang-1.18-src
• USN-6140-1: golang-1.19-doc, golang-1.20-go, golang-1.20-doc, golang-1.19, golang-1.20-src, golang-1.20, golang-1.19-go, golang-1.19-src
• USN-6038-2: golang-1.13, golang-1.16, golang-1.13-src, golang-1.16-go, golang-1.16-doc, golang-1.13-go, golang-1.16-src, golang-1.13-doc