Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1664-1 golang -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 06 Feb 2019
- Affected Packages:
- golang
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-6486.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability or possibly even the ability to conduct private key recovery attacks within in the elliptic curve cryptography handling in the Go programming language libraries.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this issue has been fixed in golang version 2:1.3.3-1+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your golang packages.