RHSA-2021:3248 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.9 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.

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 Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.9. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:3247

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http: panic in ReadRequest and ReadResponse when reading a very large header (CVE-2021-31525)
• golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names (CVE-2021-33195)
• golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)
• golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents (CVE-2021-33198)
• golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)

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.

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 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/4.8/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.8 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.8 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1958341 - CVE-2021-31525 golang: net/http: panic in ReadRequest and ReadResponse when reading a very large header
• BZ - 1983596 - CVE-2021-34558 golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic
• BZ - 1989564 - CVE-2021-33195 golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names
• BZ - 1989570 - CVE-2021-33197 golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty
• BZ - 1989575 - CVE-2021-33198 golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents
• BZ - 1996683 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.8.0 rpm release
• BZ - 1996707 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.8.0 rpm release

CVEs

• CVE-2021-31525
• CVE-2021-33195
• CVE-2021-33197
• CVE-2021-33198
• CVE-2021-34558

References

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