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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-28366: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2021-1578)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-28366: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2021-1578)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/18/2020
Created
01/09/2021
Added
01/08/2021
Modified
01/04/2023

Description

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 a malicious unquoted symbol name in a linked object file.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-golang
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-golang-bin
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-golang-docs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-golang-misc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-golang-race
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-golang-src
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-golang-tests

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