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[RHSA-2020:3783-01] Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.23 cluster-network-operator-container security update

Posted on 22 September 2020
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===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.23 cluster-network-operator-container security update
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
CVE Names: CVE-2020-14040
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1. Summary:

An update for cluster-network-operator-container is now available for Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.

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:

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.

3. 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-rel
ease-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/updating/updating-cluster
- -cli.html.

4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash

5. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040
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.

 

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