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RedHat: RHSA-2019-2859 Moderate: OpenShift 4.1.18 Man-in-the-Middle Risk

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Moderate security alert for RedHat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.1.18 concerning a vulnerability in TLS/SSL protocols.
An update for golang-github-openshift-oauth-proxy-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.1.18, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.1/html/release_notes/ocp-4-1-release-notes

Summary

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.
Security Fix(es):
* A flaw was found in the way the DES/3DES cipher was used as part of the TLS/SSL protocol. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to recover some plaintext data by capturing large amounts of encrypted traffic between TLS/SSL server and client if the communication used a DES/3DES based ciphersuite. (CVE-2016-2183)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update moderate severity man-in-the-middle attack OpenShift container platform

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2183 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2859-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2859
Issue date: 2019-09-27

Topic

An update for golang-github-openshift-oauth-proxy-container is nowavailable for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update moderate severity man-in-the-middle attack OpenShift container platform

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1369383 - CVE-2016-2183 SSL/TLS: Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers (SWEET32)

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