Home / mailings [RHSA-2020:2595-01] Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.36 ose-machine-config-operator-container security update
Posted on 01 July 2020
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.36 ose-machine-config-operator-container security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2595-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2595
Issue date: 2020-07-01
CVE Names: CVE-2020-1750 CVE-2020-8616 CVE-2020-8617
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1. Summary:
An update for ose-machine-config-operator-container is now available for
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Description:
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):
* machine-config-operator-container: mmap stressor made the cluster
unresponsive (CVE-2020-1750)
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.
3. Solution:
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for release 4.2.36, for important instructions on
how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/release_notes/ocp-4-2-rel
ease-notes.html
Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/updating/updating-cluster
- -cli.html.
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1808130 - CVE-2020-1750 machine-config-operator-container: mmap stressor makes the cluster unresponsive
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1750
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8616
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8617
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
6. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
