Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift-web-console security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 atomic-openshift-web-console security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for atomic-openshift-web-console is now available for Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 3.11.

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.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes
application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud
deployments.

The atomic-openshift-web-console package provides the management console for OpenShift Container Platform.

Security Fix(es):

• xterm.js: Mishandling of special characters allows for code execution (CVE-2019-0542)
  

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.

Solution

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/3.11/release_notes/ocp_3_11_release_notes.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 3.11 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1668531 - CVE-2019-0542 xterm.js: Mishandling of special characters allows for remote code execution

CVEs

• CVE-2019-0542

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate