[USN-7061-1] Go vulnerabilities

[Allen Huang]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7061-1
October 10, 2024

golang-1.17 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Go.

Software Description:
- 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 LTS
   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:
   https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7061-1
   CVE-2023-24531, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-29402, CVE-2023-29403,
   CVE-2023-29404, CVE-2023-29405, CVE-2023-29406, CVE-2023-39318,
   CVE-2023-39319, CVE-2023-39325, CVE-2024-24785

Package Information:
   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-1.17/1.17.13-3ubuntu1.2