Issue 10: Address issues identified by vulnerability scan

[mrajagopal]

The govulncheck tool identified:

• golang.org/x/net@v0.19.0 Vulnerability #1: GO-2024-2687 HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http More info: https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2687 Module: golang.org/x/net Found in: golang.org/x/net@v0.19.0 Fixed in: golang.org/x/net@v0.23.0

• google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.32.0 Vulnerability #1: GO-2024-2611 Infinite loop in JSON unmarshaling in google.golang.org/protobuf More info: https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2611 Module: google.golang.org/protobuf Found in: google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.32.0 Fixed in: google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.33.0

Fix:

• Upgraded to golang.org/x/net@v0.23.0
• Upgraded to google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.33.0
• This has resulted in several dependant modules being upgraded

[dareste]

lgtm:

govulncheck -show verbose ./...
Scanning your code and 950 packages across 138 dependent modules for known vulnerabilities...

Fetching vulnerabilities from the database...

Checking the code against the vulnerabilities...

No vulnerabilities found.