RedHat: RHSA-2020-3783:01 Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.23
Summary
OpenShift Container Platform components are primarily written in Go
(golang).
The golang.org/x/text contains text-related packages which are used for
text operations, such as character encodings, text transformations, and
locale-specific text handling.
Security Fix(es):
* golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in
encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
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.
Summary
Solution
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 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 asynchronous errata update:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/release_notes/ocp-4-4-release-notes.html
Details on how to access this content are available at
- -cli.html.
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Package List
Topic
An update for cluster-network-operator-container is now available for RedHat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Bugs Fixed
1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash