RHSA-2019:2661 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the openshift and atomic-enterprise-service-catalog packages is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1.

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

Both the openshift and atomic-enterprise-service-catalog packages have been rebuilt with updates versions of golang. The golang packages provide the Go programming language compiler.

Security Fix(es):

• HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)
• HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for release 4.1.14, for important instructions on
how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/release_notes/ocp-4-1-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1735645 - CVE-2019-9512 HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth
• BZ - 1735744 - CVE-2019-9514 HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth

CVEs

• CVE-2019-9512
• CVE-2019-9514

References

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