RHSA-2020:3425 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for servicemesh is now available for OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.

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 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):

• istio: incorrect translation of DENY policy for TCP service (CVE-2020-16844)

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 1.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1861625 - CVE-2020-16844 istio: incorrect translation of DENY policy for TCP service

CVEs

• CVE-2020-16844

References

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