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Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALAS-2023-2037)

2023-05-1700:00:00
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amazon linux 2
golang
version prior
denial of service
vulnerability
alas-2023-2037
http
mime header
memory exhaustion
cve-2023-24534
nessus scanner

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.7%

The version of golang installed on the remote host is prior to 1.18.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2037 advisory.

  • HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service.
    With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.
    (CVE-2023-24534)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2023-2037.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(175947);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/05/17");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-24534");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0022-S");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALAS-2023-2037)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of golang installed on the remote host is prior to 1.18.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability
as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2037 advisory.

  - HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs,
    potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common
    function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold
    the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large
    amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service.
    With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.
    (CVE-2023-24534)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2037.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-24534.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update golang' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-24534");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/04/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/05/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/05/17");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-bin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-misc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-race");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-shared");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-src");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-tests");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}

include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-bin-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-bin-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-docs-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-misc-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-race-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-shared-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-shared-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-src-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'golang-tests-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.4', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "golang / golang-bin / golang-docs / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxgolangp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang
amazonlinuxgolang-binp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-bin
amazonlinuxgolang-docsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-docs
amazonlinuxgolang-miscp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-misc
amazonlinuxgolang-racep-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-race
amazonlinuxgolang-sharedp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-shared
amazonlinuxgolang-srcp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-src
amazonlinuxgolang-testsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:golang-tests
amazonlinux2cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2