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USN-7081-1: Go vulnerabilities

23 October 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Go.

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Details

It was discovered that the Go net/http module did not properly handle
responses to requests with an "Expect: 100-continue" header under certain
circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2024-24791)

It was discovered that the Go parser module did not properly handle deeply
nested literal values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
a panic resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-34155)

It was discovered that the Go encoding/gob module did not properly handle
message decoding under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-34156)

It was discovered that the Go build module did not properly handle certain
build tag lines with deeply nested expressions. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2024-34158)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

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

Related notices

  • USN-7111-1: golang-1.17-src, golang-1.17-go, golang-1.17-doc, golang-1.17
  • USN-7109-1: golang-1.18, golang-1.18-src, golang-1.18-go, golang-1.18-doc