SB20240806304 - Amazon Linux AMI update for golang

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SB20240806304 - Amazon Linux AMI update for golang

Published: August 6, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB20240806304
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 33% Low 67%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39326)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP chunked requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the server and consume excessive memory resources.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45283)

The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to the path/filepath package does not recognize paths with a "??" prefix as Root Local Device path prefix. A local user can abuse such behavior and bypass implemented security restrictions.

3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45284)

The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to the IsLocal() function from the path/filepath package does not correctly detect reserved device names in some cases when executed on Windows. Reserved names followed by spaces, such as "COM1 ", and reserved names "COM" and "LPT" followed by superscript 1, 2, or 3, are incorrectly reported as local. A local user can abuse such behavior and bypass implemented security restrictions.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References