Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting golang-docs package, versions <0:1.21.13-4.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-GOLANGDOCS-8161217
  • published3 Oct 2024
  • disclosed30 Sept 2024

Introduced: 30 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-9355  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 golang-docs to version 0:1.21.13-4.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:7550.

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.

A vulnerability was found in Golang FIPS OpenSSL. This flaw allows a malicious user to randomly cause an uninitialized buffer length variable with a zeroed buffer to be returned in FIPS mode. It may also be possible to force a false positive match between non-equal hashes when comparing a trusted computed hmac sum to an untrusted input sum if an attacker can send a zeroed buffer in place of a pre-computed sum.  It is also possible to force a derived key to be all zeros instead of an unpredictable value.  This may have follow-on implications for the Go TLS stack.

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