Medium: golang

Issue Overview:

A vulnerability was found in net/http of the Go standard library when parsing very large HTTP header values, causing a crash and subsequent denial of service. This vulnerability affects both clients and servers written in Go, however servers are only vulnerable if the default 1 MB value for MaxHeaderBytes is increased. (CVE-2021-31525)

Affected Packages:

golang

Issue Correction:
Run yum update golang to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    golang-bin-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.i686  
    golang-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    golang-tests-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.noarch  
    golang-docs-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.noarch  
    golang-src-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.noarch  
    golang-misc-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    golang-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    golang-bin-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.x86_64  
    golang-race-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.x86_64  
    golang-1.15.12-1.67.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-31525

Mitre: CVE-2021-31525