RHSA-2021:0980 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.1.5 General
Availability release images, which fix several bugs and security issues.

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 Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.1.5 images

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides the
capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site
reliability engineers face as they work across a range of public and
private cloud environments. Clusters and applications are all visible and
managed from a single console—with security policy built in.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat Advanced Cluster
Management for Kubernetes, which fix several bugs and security issues. See
the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated shortly
for this release, for additional details about this release:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_advanced_cluster_mana gement_for_kubernetes/2.1/html/release_notes/

Security fix:

• 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, including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug fixes:

• Overview page not showing pods count of the cluster (BZ#1903446)
• On new Application deployment, Ansible Prehook gets executed twice (BZ#1920654)
• Go panic in multicluster-operators-hub pods when creating a helm subscription using basic auth (BZ#1925281)
• RHACM 2.1.5 images (BZ#1931887)
• CVE-2020-14040 grafana-dashboard-loader: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2] (BZ#1932356)
• CVE-2020-14040 multicluster-monitoring-operator: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2] (BZ#1932359)
• RHACM missing Canadian regions for Azure Provider (BZ#1932430)
• CVE-2020-14040 configmap-watcher: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1932481)
• CVE-2020-14040 governance-policy-status-sync: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1932498)
• CVE-2020-14040 governance-policy-template-sync: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1932617)
• CVE-2020-14040 governance-policy-spec-sync: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1932633)
• CVE-2020-14040 multicloudhub-operator: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1932665)
• CVE-2020-14040 multicloudhub-repo: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1932668)
• CVE-2020-14040 config-policy-controller: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1933062)
• CVE-2020-14040 cert-manager: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1933073)
• CVE-2020-14040 cert-policy-controller: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1933104)
• CVE-2020-14040 iam-policy-controller: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1933106)
• CVE-2020-14040 management-ingress: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1933136)
• CVE-2020-14040 governance-policy-propagator: golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash [rhacm-2.1] (BZ#1938355)

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/documentation/en-us/red_hat_advanced_cluster_management_for_kubernetes/2.1/html/install/installing#upgrading-by-using-the-operator

Affected Products

• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash
• BZ - 1903446 - Overview page not showing pods count of the cluster
• BZ - 1920654 - On new Application deployment, Ansible Prehook gets executed twice
• BZ - 1925281 - Go panic in multicluster-operators-hub pods when creating a helm subscription using basic auth
• BZ - 1931887 - RHACM 2.1.5 images
• BZ - 1932430 - RHACM missing Canadian regions for Azure Provider

CVEs

• CVE-2020-8625
• CVE-2020-14040
• CVE-2020-14372
• CVE-2020-25632
• CVE-2020-25647
• CVE-2020-27749
• CVE-2020-27779
• CVE-2021-20225
• CVE-2021-20230
• CVE-2021-20233

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040