RHSA-2015:1736 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated openshift packages that fix one security issue are now
available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise is a cloud computing Platform-as-a-
Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private cloud
deployments.

Improper error handling in the API server can cause the master process
to crash. A user with network access to the master could cause this to
happen. (CVE-2015-5250)

This issue was discovered by Jordan Liggitt of the Red Hat OpenShift
Enterprise Team.

All OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages, which correct this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258.

After running the "yum update" command on each host and ensuring all
packages have been updated, restart the openshift-master service on
the master host:

# systemctl restart openshift-master

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.0.0.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1258641 - Malformed JSON can cause API process crash
• BZ - 1259867 - CVE-2015-5250 OpenShift: Malformed JSON can cause API process crash

CVEs

• CVE-2015-5250

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal