SB2021091464 - Fedora 35 update for golang

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SB2021091464 - Fedora 35 update for golang

Published: September 14, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB2021091464
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27919)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the Reader.Open API when use a ZIP archive containing files start with “../”. A remote attacker can trick a victim to open a specially crafted ZIP archive and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36221)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in net/http/httputil ReverseProxy when handling ErrAbortHandler events. A remote attacker can trigger a race condition and crash the ReverseProxy.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References