QID 352505

Date Published: 2021-08-11

QID 352505: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for golang: ALAS2-2021-1694

A vulnerability was found in archive/zip of the go standard library.
Applications written in go can panic or potentially exhaust system memory when parsing malformed zip files. (
( CVE-2021-33196) a flaw was found in golang.
A panic can be triggered by an attacker in a privileged network position without access to the server certificate's private key, as long as a trusted ecdsa or ed25519 certificate for the server exists (or can be issued), or the client is configured with config.
Insecureskipverify.
Clients that disable all tls_rsa cipher suites (that is, tls 1.0-1.2 cipher suites without ecdhe), as well as tls 1.3-only clients, are unaffected. (
( CVE-2021-34558)



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Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; allows unauthorized modification; allows disruption of service.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
  • Solution
    Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS2-2021-1694 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ALAS2-2021-1694 Amazon Linux 2 URL Logo alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2021-1694.html