go1.20.5 (released 2023-06-06) includes four security fixes to the cmd/go and
runtime packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the
runtime, and the crypto/rsa, net, and os packages. See the Go 1.20.5 milestone
on our issue tracker for details:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.20.5+label%3ACherryPickApproved
full diff: https://github.com/golang/go/compare/go1.20.4...go1.20.5
These minor releases include 3 security fixes following the security policy:
- cmd/go: cgo code injection
The go command may generate unexpected code at build time when using cgo. This
may result in unexpected behavior when running a go program which uses cgo.
This may occur when running an untrusted module which contains directories with
newline characters in their names. Modules which are retrieved using the go command,
i.e. via "go get", are not affected (modules retrieved using GOPATH-mode, i.e.
GO111MODULE=off, may be affected).
Thanks to Juho Nurminen of Mattermost for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2023-29402 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/60167.
- runtime: unexpected behavior of setuid/setgid binaries
The Go runtime didn't act any differently when a binary had the setuid/setgid
bit set. On Unix platforms, if a setuid/setgid binary was executed with standard
I/O file descriptors closed, opening any files could result in unexpected
content being read/written with elevated prilieges. Similarly if a setuid/setgid
program was terminated, either via panic or signal, it could leak the contents
of its registers.
Thanks to Vincent Dehors from Synacktiv for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2023-29403 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/60272.
- cmd/go: improper sanitization of LDFLAGS
The go command may execute arbitrary code at build time when using cgo. This may
occur when running "go get" on a malicious module, or when running any other
command which builds untrusted code. This is can by triggered by linker flags,
specified via a "#cgo LDFLAGS" directive.
Thanks to Juho Nurminen of Mattermost for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2023-29404 and CVE-2023-29405 and Go issues https://go.dev/issue/60305 and https://go.dev/issue/60306.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
go1.20.4 (released 2023-05-02) includes three security fixes to the html/template
package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the runtime, and the crypto/subtle,
crypto/tls, net/http, and syscall packages. See the Go 1.20.4 milestone on our
issue tracker for details:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.20.4+label%3ACherryPickApproved
release notes: https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.20.4
full diff: https://github.com/golang/go/compare/go1.20.3...go1.20.4
from the announcement:
> These minor releases include 3 security fixes following the security policy:
>
> - html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values
>
> Angle brackets (`<>`) were not considered dangerous characters when inserted
> into CSS contexts. Templates containing multiple actions separated by a '/'
> character could result in unexpectedly closing the CSS context and allowing
> for injection of unexpected HMTL, if executed with untrusted input.
>
> Thanks to Juho Nurminen of Mattermost for reporting this issue.
>
> This is CVE-2023-24539 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/59720.
>
> - html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace
>
> Not all valid JavaScript whitespace characters were considered to be
> whitespace. Templates containing whitespace characters outside of the character
> set "\t\n\f\r\u0020\u2028\u2029" in JavaScript contexts that also contain
> actions may not be properly sanitized during execution.
>
> Thanks to Juho Nurminen of Mattermost for reporting this issue.
>
> This is CVE-2023-24540 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/59721.
>
> - html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes
>
> Templates containing actions in unquoted HTML attributes (e.g. "attr={{.}}")
> executed with empty input could result in output that would have unexpected
> results when parsed due to HTML normalization rules. This may allow injection
> of arbitrary attributes into tags.
>
> Thanks to Juho Nurminen of Mattermost for reporting this issue.
>
> This is CVE-2023-29400 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/59722.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
go1.20.3 (released 2023-04-04) includes security fixes to the go/parser,
html/template, mime/multipart, net/http, and net/textproto packages, as well
as bug fixes to the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the time package.
See the Go 1.20.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.20.3+label%3ACherryPickApproved
full diff: https://github.com/golang/go/compare/go1.20.2...go1.20.3
Further details from the announcement on the mailing list:
We have just released Go versions 1.20.3 and 1.19.8, minor point releases.
These minor releases include 4 security fixes following the security policy:
- go/parser: infinite loop in parsing
Calling any of the Parse functions on Go source code which contains `//line`
directives with very large line numbers can cause an infinite loop due to
integer overflow.
Thanks to Philippe Antoine (Catena cyber) for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2023-24537 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/59180.
- html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters
Templates did not properly consider backticks (`) as Javascript string
delimiters, and as such did not escape them as expected. Backticks are
used, since ES6, for JS template literals. If a template contained a Go
template action within a Javascript template literal, the contents of the
action could be used to terminate the literal, injecting arbitrary Javascript
code into the Go template.
As ES6 template literals are rather complex, and themselves can do string
interpolation, we've decided to simply disallow Go template actions from being
used inside of them (e.g. "var a = {{.}}"), since there is no obviously safe
way to allow this behavior. This takes the same approach as
github.com/google/safehtml. Template.Parse will now return an Error when it
encounters templates like this, with a currently unexported ErrorCode with a
value of 12. This ErrorCode will be exported in the next major release.
Users who rely on this behavior can re-enable it using the GODEBUG flag
jstmpllitinterp=1, with the caveat that backticks will now be escaped. This
should be used with caution.
Thanks to Sohom Datta, Manipal Institute of Technology, for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2023-24538 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/59234.
- net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation
HTTP and MIME header parsing could allocate large amounts of memory, even when
parsing small inputs.
Certain unusual patterns of input data could cause the common function used to
parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than
required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to
cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request,
potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service.
Header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed
headers.
Thanks to Jakob Ackermann (@das7pad) for discovering this issue.
This is CVE-2023-24534 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/58975.
- net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
Multipart form parsing can consume large amounts of CPU and memory when
processing form inputs containing very large numbers of parts. This stems from
several causes:
mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm limits the total memory a parsed multipart form
can consume. ReadForm could undercount the amount of memory consumed, leading
it to accept larger inputs than intended. Limiting total memory does not
account for increased pressure on the garbage collector from large numbers of
small allocations in forms with many parts. ReadForm could allocate a large
number of short-lived buffers, further increasing pressure on the garbage
collector. The combination of these factors can permit an attacker to cause an
program that parses multipart forms to consume large amounts of CPU and
memory, potentially resulting in a denial of service. This affects programs
that use mime/multipart.Reader.ReadForm, as well as form parsing in the
net/http package with the Request methods FormFile, FormValue,
ParseMultipartForm, and PostFormValue.
ReadForm now does a better job of estimating the memory consumption of parsed
forms, and performs many fewer short-lived allocations.
In addition, mime/multipart.Reader now imposes the following limits on the
size of parsed forms:
Forms parsed with ReadForm may contain no more than 1000 parts. This limit may
be adjusted with the environment variable GODEBUG=multipartmaxparts=. Form
parts parsed with NextPart and NextRawPart may contain no more than 10,000
header fields. In addition, forms parsed with ReadForm may contain no more
than 10,000 header fields across all parts. This limit may be adjusted with
the environment variable GODEBUG=multipartmaxheaders=.
Thanks to Jakob Ackermann for discovering this issue.
This is CVE-2023-24536 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/59153.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Sebastiaan van Stijn
CrazyMax