SB2024092307 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for golang



SB2024092307 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for golang

Published: September 23, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024092307
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24791)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of "Expect: 100-continue" HTTP requests. A remote attacker can send multiple such requests and consume all available resources.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-34155)

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

The vulnerability exists due to go/parser does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-34156)

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

The vulnerability exists due to encoding/gob does not properly control consumption of internal resources when calling Decoder.Decode. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Note, this vulnerability is related to #VU66068 (CVE-2024-34156).


4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-34158)

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

The vulnerability exists due to go/build/constraint does not properly control consumption of internal resources when calling Parse on a "// +build" build tag line with deeply nested expressions. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.