RHSA-2016:2696 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for atomic-openshift is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

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

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.3.1.4. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:2697

Security Fix(es):

• The OpenShift Container Platform 3 router does not properly sort routes when processing newly added routes. An attacker with access to create routes can potentially overwrite existing routes and redirect network traffic for other users to their own site. (CVE-2016-8631)

This issue was discovered by Jordan Liggitt (Red Hat).

All OpenShift Container Platform 3 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images.

Solution

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

See the OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 3.3.1.4, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.3/release_notes/ocp_3_3_release_notes.html

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.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1390735 - CVE-2016-8631 OSE 3: Router sometimes selects new routes over old routes when determining claimed hostnames

CVEs

• CVE-2016-8631

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate