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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:4074 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2019-12-03
Updated:
2019-12-03

RHSA-2019:4074 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 runc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

An update for runc is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.

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 Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the runc RPM package for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.9. The runC tool is a lightweight, portable implementation of the Open Container Format (OCF) that provides a container runtime.

Security Fix(es):

  • runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc (CVE-2019-16884)

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 4.2 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.2.9, for important instructions on
how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/release_notes/ocp-4-2-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1757214 - CVE-2019-16884 runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc

CVEs

  • CVE-2019-16884

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 for RHEL 8

SRPM
runc-1.0.0-63.rc8.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: ca1ac0000bbac19288d50290cf0b4ba22cd4823608a2b6d9b6ca34d60826a238
x86_64
runc-1.0.0-63.rc8.el8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: da2ecb0f52a1f2c92fbfccebfadf2333ddce8e685e838de3ef605adf34aaec64
runc-debuginfo-1.0.0-63.rc8.el8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 34274d12f88e41fffe35193936e1a8daf3209c821ca194564bae54e78d6946ca
runc-debugsource-1.0.0-63.rc8.el8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a2d253a2bcfcb25e89d1c740ee71d0d318371976cc432f210f983a7cd34d6808

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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