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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-44717: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2022-1583)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-44717: Security patch for golang (ALAS-2022-1583)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/16/2021
Created
05/03/2022
Added
04/29/2022
Modified
04/29/2022

Description

Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-golang

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