Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:6114 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2023-10-25
Updated:
2023-10-25

RHSA-2023:6114 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.7.17 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes.

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 support for Spring Boot provides an application platform that reduces the complexity of developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized platform.

This release of Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.7.17 serves as a replacement for Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.7.16, and includes security, bug fixes and enhancements. For more information, see the release notes linked in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

  • undertow: 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 the Rapid Reset flaw is available in the References section.

  • apache-johnzon: Prevent inefficient internal conversion from BigDecimal at large scale (CVE-2023-33008)

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 the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2221135 - CVE-2023-33008 apache-johnzon: Prevent inefficient internal conversion from BigDecimal at large scale
  • BZ - 2242803 - CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2: Multiple HTTP/2 enabled web servers are vulnerable to a DDoS attack (Rapid Reset Attack)

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.