RHSA-2023:5805 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4

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 Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language.

Security Fix(es):

• receptor: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work [CVE-2023-44487] (CVE-2023-39325)
• receptor: HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack) (CVE-2023-44487)

A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about this flaw is available in the References section.

• receptor: golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys (CVE-2023-29409)

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.

Additional changes:

• receptor has been updated to 1.4.2

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2228743 - CVE-2023-29409 golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys
• BZ - 2242803 - CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack)
• BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)

CVEs

• CVE-2023-29409
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-44487

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003