RHSA-2023:5007 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.14.0 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 4.14.

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

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)
• mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated (CVE-2021-20329)
• net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)
• golang.org/x/net/html: Cross site scripting (CVE-2023-3978)
• goproxy: Denial of service (DoS) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2023-37788)

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

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/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1971033 - CVE-2021-20329 mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated
• BZ - 2178358 - CVE-2022-41723 net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding
• BZ - 2224245 - CVE-2023-37788 goproxy: Denial of service (DoS) via unspecified vectors.
• BZ - 2228689 - CVE-2023-3978 golang.org/x/net/html: Cross site scripting
• BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)

CVEs

• CVE-2021-20329
• CVE-2022-41723
• CVE-2022-48303
• CVE-2023-3341
• CVE-2023-3978
• CVE-2023-4911
• CVE-2023-37788
• CVE-2023-38545
• CVE-2023-38546
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-40217
• CVE-2023-44487

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-release-notes.html