Home / mailings [RHSA-2020:2798-01] Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 servicemesh-proxy security update
Posted on 01 July 2020
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 servicemesh-proxy security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2798-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2798
Issue date: 2020-07-01
CVE Names: CVE-2020-8663 CVE-2020-12603 CVE-2020-12604
CVE-2020-12605
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1. Summary:
An update for servicemesh-proxy is now available for OpenShift Service Mesh
1.1.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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. Relevant releases/architectures:
OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1 - x86_64
3. Description:
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio
service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise
OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Security Fix(es):
* envoy: Resource exhaustion when accepting too many connections
(CVE-2020-8663)
* envoy: Resource exhaustion when proxying HTTP/2 requests or responses
with small data frames (CVE-2020-12603)
* envoy: Resource exhaustion when processing HTTP/1.1 headers with long
field names (CVE-2020-12605)
* envoy: Resource exhaustion via HTTP/2 client requests with large payloads
and improper stream windows (CVE-2020-12604)
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.
4. Solution:
The OpenShift Service Mesh release notes provide information on the
features and
known issues:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/service_mesh/serviceme
sh-release-notes.html
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1844251 - CVE-2020-12603 envoy: Resource exhaustion when proxying HTTP/2 requests or responses with small data frames
1844252 - CVE-2020-12605 envoy: Resource exhaustion when processing HTTP/1.1 headers with long field names
1844254 - CVE-2020-8663 envoy: Resource exhaustion when accepting too many connections
1844255 - CVE-2020-12604 envoy: Resource exhaustion via HTTP/2 client requests with large payloads and improper stream windows
6. Package List:
OpenShift Service Mesh 1.1:
Source:
servicemesh-proxy-1.1.4-2.el8.src.rpm
x86_64:
servicemesh-proxy-1.1.4-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8663
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12603
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12604
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12605
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. 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.
