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CVE-2021-44717: [security] Go 1.17.5 and Go 1.16.12 are released
Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.
Hello gophers,
We have just released Go versions 1.17.5 and 1.16.12, minor point releases.
These minor releases include two security fixes following the security policy:
net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache
An attacker can cause unbounded memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests.
For users who cannot immediately update to the new release, setting the GODEBUG=http2server=0 environment variable before calling Serve will disable HTTP/2 unless it was manually configured through the golang.org/x/net/http2 package.
This issue is also fixed in golang.org/x/net/http2 v0.0.0-20211209124913-491a49abca63, for users manually configuring HTTP/2.
Thank you to murakmii for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2021-44716 and Go issue go.dev/issue/50058.
syscall: don’t close fd 0 on ForkExec error
When a Go program running on a Unix system is out of file descriptors and calls syscall.ForkExec (including indirectly by using the os/exec package), syscall.ForkExec can close file descriptor 0 as it fails. If this happens (or can be provoked) repeatedly, it can result in misdirected I/O such as writing network traffic intended for one connection to a different connection, or content intended for one file to a different one.
For users who cannot immediately update to the new release, the bug can be mitigated by raising the per-process file descriptor limit.
Thank you to Tomasz Maczukin and Kamil Trzciński of GitLab for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2021-44717 and Go issue go.dev/issue/50057.
View the release notes for more information:
https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.17.minor
You can download binary and source distributions from the Go web site:
https://golang.org/dl/
To compile from source using a Git clone, update to the release with
“git checkout go1.17.5” and build as usual.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the releases.
Cheers,
Alex and Filippo for the Go team
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