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RedHat OpenShift Version 4.4.23 RHSA-2020:3783 Moderate Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An essential security patch has been released for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 to resolve a persistent loop vulnerability.
An update for cluster-network-operator-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4

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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.4/html/release_notes/ocp-4-4-release-notes

Details on how to access this content are available at - -cli.html.

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity Red Hat OpenShift container platform infinite loop issue network operator

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3783-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3783
Issue date: 2020-09-22

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity Red Hat OpenShift container platform infinite loop issue network operator

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

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