RHEL 7 / 8 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.37 (RHSA-2021:1016)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148490

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.37.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1016 advisory.

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

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.37. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1015

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/updating/updating-cluster
-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between
-minor

Security Fix(es):

* golang: data race in certain net/http servers including ReverseProxy can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-15586)

* golang: ReadUvarint and ReadVarint can read an unlimited number of bytes from invalid inputs (CVE-2020-16845)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.37 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1016.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c913a338

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1016

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856953

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867099

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1944040

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148490

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1016.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16845

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ignition-validate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containers-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-eventrouter, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kubefed-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ignition, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15586, CVE-2020-16845

CWE: 362, 835

IAVB: 2020-B-0060-S

RHSA: 2021:1016