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USN-7061-1: Go vulnerabilities

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Hunter Wittenborn discovered that Go incorrectly handled the sanitization
of environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to run
arbitrary commands. (CVE-2023-24531)

Sohom Datta discovered that Go did not properly validate backticks (`) as
Javascript string delimiters, and did not escape them as expected. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary Javascript code
into the Go template. (CVE-2023-24538)

Juho Nurminen discovered that Go incorrectly handled certain special
characters in directory or file paths. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to inject code into the resulting binaries. (CVE-2023-29402)

Vincent Dehors discovered that Go incorrectly handled permission bits.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to read or write files with
elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-29403)

Juho Nurminen discovered that Go incorrectly handled certain crafted
arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary
code at build time. (CVE-2023-29405)

It was discovered that Go incorrectly validated the contents of host
headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject
additional headers or entire requests. (CVE-2023-29406)

Takeshi Kaneko discovered that Go did not properly handle comments and
special tags in the script context of html/template module. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to inject Javascript code and perform a
cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2023-39318, CVE-2023-39319)

It was discovered that Go did not limit the number of simultaneously
executing handler goroutines in the net/http module. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a panic resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-39325)

It was discovered that the Go html/template module did not validate errors
returned from MarshalJSON methods. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to inject arbitrary code into the Go template. (CVE-2024-24785)

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USN-7022-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
– GPU drivers;
– Modular ISDN driver;
– MMC subsystem;
– SCSI drivers;
– F2FS file system;
– GFS2 file system;
– Netfilter;
– RxRPC session sockets;
– Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;
(CVE-2021-47188, CVE-2024-39494, CVE-2022-48791, CVE-2022-48863,
CVE-2024-42228, CVE-2024-38570, CVE-2024-42160, CVE-2024-26787,
CVE-2024-27012, CVE-2024-26677)

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