1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-7061-1

USN-7061-1: Go vulnerabilities

Publication date

10 October 2024

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Go.

Releases

Packages

  • 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....

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

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.04 jammy 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

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