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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-6486: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2019-1172)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-6486: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2019-1172)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/24/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
03/12/2019
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

Go before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5 mishandles P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly conduct ECDH private key recovery attacks.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-golang

References

  • ALAS-2019-1172
  • DSA-4379
  • DSA-4380
  • CVE-2019-6486

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