RHSA-2020:3783 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for cluster-network-operator-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.

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

OpenShift Container Platform components are primarily written in Go
(golang).
The golang.org/x/text contains text-related packages which are used for
text operations, such as character encodings, text transformations, and
locale-specific text handling.

Security Fix(es):

• golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)

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

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/release_notes/ocp-4-4-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.4 for RHEL 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14040

References

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