Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1172
Advisory Release Date: 2019-03-07 05:59 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-03-08 00:46 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
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