Medium: golang

Issue Overview:

Go mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.(CVE-2019-6486)

Note: This CVE is also fixed in golang-1.11.3-2.amzn2.0.2 in the golang1.11 extras repository.

Affected Packages:

golang

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

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

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    golang-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
    golang-bin-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
  
noarch:  
    golang-docs-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    golang-misc-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    golang-tests-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    golang-src-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    golang-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    golang-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    golang-bin-1.9.4-3.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2019-6486

Mitre: CVE-2019-6486