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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4379-1 golang-1.7 -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Feb 2019

Affected Packages:

golang-1.7

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-7187, CVE-2019-6486.

More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in the implementation of the P-521 and P-384 elliptic curves, which could result in denial of service and in some cases key recovery.

In addition this update fixes a vulnerability in go get, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.4-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your golang-1.7 packages.

For the detailed security status of golang-1.7 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/golang-1.7