Medium: golang

Issue Overview:

In Go before 1.14.14 and 1.15.x before 1.15.7, crypto/elliptic/p224.go can generate incorrect outputs, related to an underflow of the lowest limb during the final complete reduction in the P-224 field. (CVE-2021-3114)

Go before 1.14.14 and 1.15.x before 1.15.7 on Windows is vulnerable to Command Injection and remote code execution when using the “go get” command to fetch modules that make use of cgo (for example, cgo can execute a gcc program from an untrusted download). (CVE-2021-3115)

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-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
    golang-bin-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64  
  
noarch:  
    golang-docs-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    golang-misc-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    golang-tests-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
    golang-src-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    golang-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    golang-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    golang-bin-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  
    golang-race-1.15.8-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3114, CVE-2021-3115

Mitre: CVE-2021-3114, CVE-2021-3115