Headline
CVE-2023-29406: [security] Go 1.20.6 and Go 1.19.11 are released
The HTTP/1 client does not fully validate the contents of the Host header. A maliciously crafted Host header can inject additional headers or entire requests. With fix, the HTTP/1 client now refuses to send requests containing an invalid Request.Host or Request.URL.Host value.
Hello gophers,
We have just released Go versions 1.20.6 and 1.19.11, minor point releases.
These minor releases include 1 security fixes following the security policy:
net/http: insufficient sanitization of Host header
The HTTP/1 client did not fully validate the contents of the Host header. A maliciously crafted Host header could inject additional headers or entire requests. The HTTP/1 client now refuses to send requests containing an invalid Request.Host or Request.URL.Host value.
Thanks to Bartek Nowotarski for reporting this issue.
Includes security fixes for CVE-2023-29406 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/60374
View the release notes for more information:
https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.20.6
You can download binary and source distributions from the Go website:
https://go.dev/dl/
To compile from source using a Git clone, update to the release with
git checkout go1.20.6 and build as usual.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the releases.
Cheers,
Cherry and Joedian for the Go team
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