Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 is now available.

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

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

• A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive. (CVE-2016-5418)

Red Hat would like to thank Insomnia Security for reporting this issue.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The following images are included in this errata:

openshift3/openvswitch:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-pod:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-docker-registry:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-keepalived-ipfailover:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-recycler:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-f5-router:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-deployer:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/node:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-sti-builder:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-docker-builder:v3.1.1.7
openshift3/ose-haproxy-router:v3.1.1.7

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1362601 - CVE-2016-5418 libarchive: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink), but has a non-zero data size file overwrite

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5418

References