- Issued:
- 2022-05-11
- Updated:
- 2022-05-11
RHSA-2022:2216 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift Logging Security and Bug update Release 5.4.1
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
Logging Subsystem 5.4.1 - Red Hat OpenShift
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
Logging Subsystem 5.4.1 - Red Hat OpenShift
Security Fix(es):
- netty-codec: Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data (CVE-2021-37136)
- netty-codec: SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length and may buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way (CVE-2021-37137)
- netty: control chars in header names may lead to HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2021-43797)
- prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)
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 OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 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 errata update:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html
For Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.4, see the following instructions to apply this update:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/logging/cluster-logging-upgrading.html
Affected Products
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for ARM 64 5 for RHEL 8 aarch64
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift 5 for RHEL 8 x86_64
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Power, little endian 5 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Z and LinuxONE 5 for RHEL 8 s390x
Fixes
- BZ - 2004133 - CVE-2021-37136 netty-codec: Bzip2Decoder doesn't allow setting size restrictions for decompressed data
- BZ - 2004135 - CVE-2021-37137 netty-codec: SnappyFrameDecoder doesn't restrict chunk length and may buffer skippable chunks in an unnecessary way
- BZ - 2031958 - CVE-2021-43797 netty: control chars in header names may lead to HTTP request smuggling
- BZ - 2045880 - CVE-2022-21698 prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter
- LOG-2437 - EO shouldn't grant cluster-wide permission to system:serviceaccount:openshift-monitoring:prometheus-k8s when ES cluster is deployed. [openshift-logging 5.4]
- LOG-2448 - Audit and journald logs cannot be viewed from LokiStack, when logs are forwarded with Vector as collector.
- LOG-2442 - Log file metric exporter not working with /var/log/pods
CVEs
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