Race Condition Affecting golang-tests package, versions <0:1.13.14-1.58.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.08% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-GOLANGTESTS-1724095
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed17 Jul 2020

Introduced: 17 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15586  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 golang-tests to version 0:1.13.14-1.58.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2020-1417.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-tests package and not the golang-tests package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Go before 1.13.13 and 1.14.x before 1.14.5 has a data race in some net/http servers, as demonstrated by the httputil.ReverseProxy Handler, because it reads a request body and writes a response at the same time.

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