RHSA-2023:0540 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1.6

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

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an OpenShift Container Platform installation.

This advisory covers the RPM packages for the release.

Security Fix(es):

• goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be (CVE-2021-4238)

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

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/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for Power 2.1 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for IBM Z 2.1 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
• OSSM-2440 - RPM Release for Maistra 2.1.6

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4238

References

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