CVE-2019-11840 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2019-11840: An issue was discovered in the supplementary Go cryptography library, golang.org/x/crypto, before v0.0.0-20190320223903-b7391e95e576. A flaw was found in the amd64 implementation of the golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa packages. If more than 256 GiB of keystream is g

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2019-11840 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

golang-go.crypto→ fixed in1:0.0~git20200221.2aa609c-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y golang-go.crypto
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

golang-go.crypto→ fixed in1:0.0~git20200221.2aa609c-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y golang-go.crypto
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

golang-go.crypto→ fixed in1:0.0~git20200221.2aa609c-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y golang-go.crypto
```

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