SB2017101809 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Go
Published: October 18, 2017 Updated: October 15, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017101809
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5739)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct an HTTP request smuggling attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to the "net/http" library in "net/textproto/reader.go" does not properly parse HTTP header keys. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a space instead of a hyphen, as demonstrated by "Content Length" instead of "Content-Length."
2) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5740)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct an HTTP request smuggling attack on the target system.The vulnerability exists due to the "net/http" library in "net/http/transfer.go" does not properly parse HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a request with two Content-length headers.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.