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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5386: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2016-731)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5386: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2016-731)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/18/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/22/2016
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

The net/http package in Go through 1.6 does not attempt to address RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 namespace conflicts and therefore does not protect CGI applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect a CGI application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-golang

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