Go 1.16.4 and Go 1.15.12 are released

[Carlos Amedee]

Hello gophers,

We have just released Go versions 1.16.4 and 1.15.12, minor point releases.

This minor release includes a security fix according to the new security policy (#44918).

ReadRequest and ReadResponse in net/http can hit an unrecoverable panic when reading a very large header (over 7MB on 64-bit architectures, or over 4MB on 32-bit ones). Transport and Client are vulnerable and the program can be made to crash by a malicious server.  Server is not vulnerable by default, but can be if the default max header of 1MB is overridden by setting Server.MaxHeaderBytes to a higher value, in which case the program can be made to crash by a malicious client.

This also affects golang.org/x/net/http2/h2c and HeaderValuesContainsToken in golang.org/x/net/http/httpguts, and is fixed in golang.org/x/n...@v0.0.0-20210428140749-89ef3d95e781.

This is issue #45710 and CVE-2021-31525.

Thanks to Guido Vranken who reported the crash as part of the Ethereum 2.0 bounty program.

View the release notes for more information:
    https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.16.minor

You 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 go1.16.4" and build as usual.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the releases.

Cheers,
Heschi and Carlos for the Go team