QID 239198

Date Published: 2021-04-01

QID 239198: Red Hat Update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.23 (RHSA-2021:0956)

ed Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computingKubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or privatecloud deployments.This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift ContainerPlatform 4.6.23. See the following advisory for the container images forthis release:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:0952 All OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 users are advised to upgrade to theseupdated packages and images when they are available in the appropriaterelease channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift Consoleor the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are availableathttps://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/updating/updating-cluster between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between minor.

Security Fix(es): golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-15586) golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)

Affected Products:

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for RHEL 8 x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for RHEL 7 x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.6 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.6 for RHEL 8 s390x

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
    • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:0956 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239198

    CVE-2020-15586 | CVE-2020-16845 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:0956 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0956?language=en
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