Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting golang-1.8 package, versions <1.8.1-1+deb9u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.14% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-GOLANG18-1040412
  • published15 Nov 2020
  • disclosed18 Nov 2020

Introduced: 15 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-28367  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 golang-1.8 to version 1.8.1-1+deb9u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.8 package and not the golang-1.8 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Code injection in the go command with cgo before Go 1.14.12 and Go 1.15.5 allows arbitrary code execution at build time via malicious gcc flags specified via a #cgo directive.

CVSS Scores

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