Comment by thwarted
5 hours ago
> Go uses the system store with an additional revoke/deny list in crypto/x509 because it allows updating a deployed application on an out of date or slow moving platform or OS.
Reminder: Neither the CVE nor the linked go alert seem to say that you have to recompile and redeploy your application with the new go version in order to take advantage of this change. Just updating the tool chain and go stdlib isn't enough, because this stuff gets baked into the resultant binary. This is unlike, say, python, Ruby, or java where updating the runtime may be sufficient, depending on your development and deployment model.
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