QID 240607

Date Published: 2022-08-16

QID 240607: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 Security Update (RHSA-2022:5068)

Red Hat openshift container platform is Red Hat's cloud computing kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

Security Fix(es):
  • ignition: configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in vms running on vmware products (cve-2022-1706)
  • prometheus/client_golang: denial of service using instrumenthandlercounter (cve-2022-21698)
  • golang: math/big: uncontrolled memory consumption due to an unhandled overflow via rat.
    Setstring (cve-2022-23772)
  • golang: cmd/go: misinterpretation of branch names can lead to incorrect access control (cve-2022-23773)
  • golang: crypto/elliptic: isoncurve returns true for invalid field elements (cve-2022-23806)
  • golang: encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in decode (cve-2022-24675)
  • golang: regexp: stack exhaustion via a deeply nested expression (cve-2022-24921)
  • golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (cve-2022-27191)
  • golang: crypto/elliptic: panic caused by oversized scalar (cve-2022-28327)
  • runc: incorrect handling of inheritable capabilities (cve-2022-29162)

Affected Products:

  • Red Hat openshift container platform 4.11 for rhel 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat openshift container platform for power 4.11 for rhel 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat openshift container platform for ibm z and linuxone 4.11 for rhel 8 s390x
  • Red Hat openshift container platform for arm 64 4.11 aarch64



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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.1 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.4 severity.
    • Solution
    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2022:5068 for updates and patch information.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 240607

    CVE-2022-1706 | CVE-2022-21698 | CVE-2022-23772 | CVE-2022-23773 | CVE-2022-23806 | CVE-2022-24675 | CVE-2022-24921 | CVE-2022-27191 | CVE-2022-28327 | CVE-2022-29162 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2022:5068 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5068
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