RHSA-2020:5649 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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):

• 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.

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 - 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-2020-15586
• CVE-2020-16845

References

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