RHSA-2024:1507 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for RHOL-5.6-RHEL-8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

Logging for Red Hat OpenShift is an opinionated collector and normalizer of application, infrastructure, and audit logs. It is intended to be used for forwarding logs to various supported systems.

Security Fix(es):

• golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)

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:

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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 errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html

For Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.6, see the following instructions to apply this update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/logging/cluster-logging-upgrading.html

Affected Products

• Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for ARM 64 5 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift 5 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Power, little endian 5 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Z and LinuxONE 5 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2268046 - CVE-2024-24786 golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON
• LOG-5203 - [release-5.6] Loki buildinfo is obscured
• LOG-5242 - [release-5.6] Loki Operator ServiceMonitor relies on a BearerTokenFile, in violation with UWM Prometheus specification
• LOG-5252 - [release-5.6] Loki Operator metrics are scraped more than once
• LOG-5276 - [release-5.6] expose buildDate, goVersion in Loki buildinfo

CVEs

• CVE-2021-35937
• CVE-2021-35938
• CVE-2021-35939
• CVE-2024-24786

References

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