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RHEL 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.39 (RHSA-2024:10145)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211862

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.39.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:10145 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 4.15.39. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10142

 Security Fix(es):

 * waitress: python-waitress: request processing race condition in HTTP pipelining with invalid first request (CVE-2024-49768)
 * waitress: Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-49769)

 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.

 All OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 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 CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

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 4.15.39 packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10145.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322460

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322461

http://www.nessus.org/u?cd70014d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10145

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211862

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10145.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2024

Updated: 11/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-49768

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-waitress, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-waitress

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: 11/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-49768, CVE-2024-49769

CWE: 444, 772

RHSA: 2024:10145