Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1294-1 golang -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 25 Feb 2018
- Affected Packages:
- golang
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-7187.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was an arbitrary command execution vulnerability in the Go programming language.
The
go get
implementation did not correctly validateimport path
statements for "://" which allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted web site.For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this issue has been fixed in golang version 2:1.0.2-1.1+deb7u3.We recommend that you upgrade your golang packages. The Debian LTS team would like to thank Abhijith PA for preparing this update.
