CVE-2016-5386

El paquete net/http en Go hasta la versión 1.6 no intenta abordar los conflictos de espacio de nombres de RFC 3875 sección 4.1.18 y por lo tanto no protege aplicaciones CGI de la presencia de datos de clientes no confiables en ambiente variable de HTTP_PROXY, lo que podría permitir a atacantes remotos redireccionar el tráfico HTTP saliente de una aplicación CGI a un servidor proxy arbitrario a través de una cabecera Proxy manipulada en una petición HTTP, también conocido como un problema "httpoxy".

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.

The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler. The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: golang. Security Fix: 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.