Hello gophers,
We have just released Go versions 1.17.2 and 1.16.9, minor point releases.
These minor releases include a security fix according to the new security policy (
#44918).
When invoking functions from WASM modules, built using GOARCH=wasm GOOS=js, passing very large arguments can cause portions of the module to be overwritten with data from the arguments.
If using wasm_exec.js to execute WASM modules, users will need to replace their copy (as described in https://golang.org/wiki/WebAssembly#getting-started) after rebuilding any modules.
This is issue #48797 and CVE-2021-38297. Thanks to Ben Lubar for reporting this issue.
View the release notes for more information:
https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.17.minorYou can download binary and source distributions from the Go web site:
https://golang.org/dl/To compile from source using a Git clone, update to the release with
"git checkout go1.17.2" and build as usual.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the releases.
Cheers,
Michael and Heschi for the Go team