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Red Hat: CVE-2021-34558: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-34558: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/15/2021
Created
08/12/2021
Added
08/12/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

The crypto/tls package of Go through 1.16.5 does not properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type when doing a RSA based key exchange, allowing a malicious TLS server to cause a TLS client to panic.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-delve
  • redhat-upgrade-delve-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-delve-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-go-toolset
  • redhat-upgrade-golang
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-bin
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-misc
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-race
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-src
  • redhat-upgrade-golang-tests
  • redhat-upgrade-grafana
  • redhat-upgrade-grafana-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-catatonit-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-docker
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-gvproxy
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-gvproxy-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-plugins
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-plugins-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-remote
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-remote-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-podman-tests

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