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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-15586: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2020-1417)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-15586: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2020-1417)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/17/2020
Created
09/02/2020
Added
09/01/2020
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-golang

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