RHSA-2020:5198 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Jaeger 1.20.

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 Jaeger is Red Hat's distribution of the Jaeger project,
tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform
installation.

Security Fix(es):

• golang-github-miekg-dns: predictable TXID can lead to response forgeries (CVE-2019-19794)
• 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 details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/jaeger/jaeger_install/rhbjaeger-updating.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 1.20 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1786761 - CVE-2019-19794 golang-github-miekg-dns: predictable TXID can lead to response forgeries
• BZ - 1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash

CVEs

• CVE-2019-19794
• CVE-2020-14040

References

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