RHEL 8 : go-toolset:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:5160)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 156108

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for go-toolset:rhel8.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:5160 advisory.

- 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL go-toolset:rhel8 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:5160.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5941e11c

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5160

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030801

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030806

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 156108

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-5160.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2021

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44717

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:delve, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:go-toolset, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-bin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-misc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-race, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:golang-tests

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44716, CVE-2021-44717

CWE: 200, 400

RHSA: 2021:5160