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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.827592
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora: Security Advisory for golang-github-cenkalti-backoff (FEDORA-2023-cb20f08a4e)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'golang-github-cenkalti-backoff'; package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2023-cb20f08a4e advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'golang-github-cenkalti-backoff'
package(s) announced via the FEDORA-2023-cb20f08a4e advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
This is a Go port of the exponential backoff algorithm from Google', s HTTP
Client Library for Java.

Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively
decrease the rate of some process, in order to gradually find an acceptable
rate. The retries exponentially increase and stop increasing when a certain
threshold is met.

Affected Software/OS:
'golang-github-cenkalti-backoff' package(s) on Fedora 37.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-41723
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T7N5GV4CHH6WAGX3GFMDD3COEOVCZ4RI/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/REMHVVIBDNKSRKNOTV7EQSB7CYQWOUOU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BUK2ZIAGCULOOYDNH25JPU6JBES5NF2/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/
https://go.dev/cl/468135
https://go.dev/cl/468295
https://go.dev/issue/57855
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/V0aBFqaFs_E
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MA5XS5DAOJ5PKKNG5TUXKPQOFHT5VBC/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RGW7GE2Z32ZT47UFAQFDRQE33B7Q7LMT/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RLBQ3A7ROLEQXQLXFDLNJ7MYPKG5GULE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XX3IMUTZKRQ73PBZM4E2JP4BKYH4C6XE/
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1571
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