RHSA-2023:6040 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is an updated version of the Node Maintenance Operator. This Operator is delivered by Red Hat Workload Availability.

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 Node Maintenance Operator cordons off nodes from the rest of the cluster and drains all the pods from the nodes. By placing nodes under maintenance, you can investigate problems with a machine, or perform operations on the underlying machine, that might result in a node failure.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)

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 OpenShift Workload Availability 1 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)

CVEs

• CVE-2023-4527
• CVE-2023-4806
• CVE-2023-4813
• CVE-2023-4911
• CVE-2023-29491
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-44487

References

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