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Red Hat: RHSA-2015:1650-01 Important: OpenShift Command Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2015
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New OpenShift updates address critical vulnerabilities impacting Red Hat customers. Upgrade is advised for every version.
Updated openshift packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise is a cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.
An improper permission check issue was discovered in the server admission control component in OpenShift. A user with build permissions could use this flaw to execute arbitrary shell commands on a build pod with the privileges of the root user. (CVE-2015-5222)
This issue was discovered by Cesar Wong of the Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Team.
All OpenShift Enterprise users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat command execution important cloud platform OpenShift CVE-2015-5222

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5222 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

RHOSE 3.0:
Source: openshift-3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose.src.rpm
x86_64: openshift-3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose.x86_64.rpm openshift-clients-3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose.x86_64.rpm openshift-master-3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose.x86_64.rpm openshift-node-3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose.x86_64.rpm openshift-sdn-ovs-3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose.x86_64.rpm tuned-profiles-openshift-node-3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1650-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1650
Issue date: 2015-08-20

Topic

Updated openshift packages that fix one security issue are now availablefor Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important securityimpact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in theReferences section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat command execution important cloud platform OpenShift CVE-2015-5222

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHOSE 3.0 - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1255120 - CVE-2015-5222 OpenShift3: Exec operations should be forbidden to privileged pods such as builder pods

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