RHSA-2022:6061 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for etcd is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (Train).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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

The etcd packages provide a highly available key-value store for shared configuration.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)
• 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 details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 16.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 16.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2045880 - CVE-2022-21698 prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter
• BZ - 2107342 - CVE-2022-30631 golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read

CVEs

• CVE-2022-21698
• CVE-2022-30631

References

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