Race Condition Affecting golang-1.14 package, versions <1.14.7-2ubuntu1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.08% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-GOLANG114-1029700
  • published1 Nov 2020
  • 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 Ubuntu:20.10 golang-1.14 to version 1.14.7-2ubuntu1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-1.14 package and not the golang-1.14 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.10 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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