| Description: | The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: golang (1.6.3). (BZ#1346331)
Security Fix(es):
An input-validation flaw was discovered in the Go programming language built in CGI implementation, which set the environment variable "HTTP_PROXY" using the incoming "Proxy" HTTP-request header. The environment variable "HTTP_PROXY" is used by numerous web clients, including Go's net/http package, to specify a proxy server to use for HTTP and, in some cases, HTTPS requests. This meant that when a CGI-based web application ran, an attacker could specify a proxy server which the application then used for subsequent outgoing requests, allowing a man-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2016-5386)
Red Hat would like to thank Scott Geary (VendHQ) for reporting this issue.
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