Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting golang-docs package, versions <0:1.19.10-1.el9_2


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-GOLANGDOCS-5747953
  • published27 Jun 2023
  • disclosed8 Jun 2023

Introduced: 8 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-29404  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 golang-docs to version 0:1.19.10-1.el9_2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:3923.

NVD Description

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

The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo. This may occur when running "go get" on a malicious module, or when running any other command which builds untrusted code. This is can by triggered by linker flags, specified via a "#cgo LDFLAGS" directive. The arguments for a number of flags which are non-optional are incorrectly considered optional, allowing disallowed flags to be smuggled through the LDFLAGS sanitization. This affects usage of both the gc and gccgo compilers.

CVSS Scores

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