RHSA-2020:5606 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for mcg is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6.0 on RHEL-8.

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 Storage is software-defined storage integrated with and optimized for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage is a highly scalable, production-grade persistent storage for stateful applications running in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. In addition to persistent storage, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage provisions a multicloud data management service with an S3 compatible API.

These updated packages include numerous security fixes, bug fixes, and
enhancements.

Security Fix(es):

• golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
• golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-15586)
• golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)

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.

These updated packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Users are
directed to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage Release Notes for
information on the most significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_container_storage/4.6/html/4.6_release_notes/index

All Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation for IBM Power, little endian 4 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash
• BZ - 1856953 - CVE-2020-15586 golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS
• BZ - 1867099 - CVE-2020-16845 golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14040
• CVE-2020-15586
• CVE-2020-16845

References

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