RHSA-2020:2524 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for servicemesh-proxy is now available for OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.

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

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

Security Fix(es):

• nghttp2: overly large SETTINGS frames can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-11080)

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

The OpenShift Service Mesh release notes provide information on the features and known issues:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/service_mesh/servicemesh-release-notes.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1844929 - CVE-2020-11080 nghttp2: overly large SETTINGS frames can lead to DoS

CVEs

• CVE-2020-11080

References

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