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A golang security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: golang-1.20.6-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-eb60fcd505
2023-07-21 02:25:07.834446
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Name : golang
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 1.20.6
Release : 1.fc38
URL : https://go.dev
Summary : The Go Programming Language
Description :
The Go Programming Language.

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Update Information:

This update includes a security fix to the net/http package, as well as bug
fixes to the compiler, cgo, the cover tool, the go command, the runtime, and the
crypto/ecdsa, go/build, go/printer, net/mail, and text/template packages.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 11 2023 Mike Rochefort [mroche@omenos.dev] - 1.20.6-1
- Update to go 1.20.6
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2217561 - CVE-2023-29403 golang: runtime: unexpected behavior of setuid/setgid binaries [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217561
[ 2 ] Bug #2217564 - CVE-2023-29402 golang: go command may generate unexpected code at build time when using cgo [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217564
[ 3 ] Bug #2217567 - CVE-2023-29404 golang: go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217567
[ 4 ] Bug #2217571 - CVE-2023-29405 golang: Arbitratry code execution triggered by linker flags [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2217571
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-eb60fcd505' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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