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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4551-1 golang-1.11 -- security update

Date Reported:

25 Oct 2019

Affected Packages:

golang-1.11

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17596.

More information:

Daniel Mandragona discovered that invalid DSA public keys can cause a panic in dsa.Verify(), resulting in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.6-1+deb10u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your golang-1.11 packages.

For the detailed security status of golang-1.11 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/golang-1.11