Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Gentoo/Soko package

Soko if the code that powers packages.gentoo.org. Prior to version 1.0.2, the two package search handlers, Search and SearchFeed, implemented in pkg/app/handler/packages/search.go, are affected by a SQL injection via the q parameter. As a result, unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary SQL queries on https://packages.gentoo.org/. It was also demonstrated that primitive was enough to gain code execution in the context of the PostgreSQL container. The issue was addressed in commit 4fa6e4b619c0362728955b6ec56eab0e0cbf1e23y …

Gentoo soko is the code that powers packages.gentoo.org. Versions prior to 1.0.1 is vulnerable to SQL Injection, leading to a Denial of Service. If the user selects (in user preferences) the "Recently Visited Packages" view for the index page, the value of the search_history cookie is used as a base64 encoded comma separated list of atoms. These are string loaded directly into the SQL query with atom = '%s' format …