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A go1.16 security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.2.



openSUSE-SU-2021:1078-1: important: Security update for go1.16


openSUSE Security Update: Security update for go1.16
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1078-1
Rating: important
References: #1182345 #1188229
Cross-References: CVE-2021-34558
CVSS scores:
CVE-2021-34558 (SUSE): 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.2
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An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata
is now available.

Description:

This update for go1.16 fixes the following issues:

go1.16.6 (released 2021-07-12, bsc#1182345) includes a security fix to the
crypto/tls package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, and the net and
net/http packages.

Security issue fixed:

CVE-2021-34558: Fixed crypto/tls: clients can panic when provided a
certificate of the wrong type for the negotiated parameters (bsc#1188229)

go1.16 release:

* bsc#1188229 go#47143 CVE-2021-34558
* go#47145 security: fix CVE-2021-34558
* go#46999 net: LookupMX behaviour broken
* go#46981 net: TestCVE202133195 fails if /etc/resolv.conf specifies ndots
larger than 3
* go#46769 syscall: TestGroupCleanupUserNamespace test failure on Fedora
* go#46657 runtime: deeply nested struct initialized with non-zero values
* go#44984 net/http: server not setting Content-Length in certain cases

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1078=1


Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

go1.16-1.16.6-lp152.5.1
go1.16-doc-1.16.6-lp152.5.1
go1.16-race-1.16.6-lp152.5.1

References:

  https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-34558.html
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182345
  https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188229