Important: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.3.

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.

Description

OpenShift Container Platform by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for this release. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0476

All OpenShift Container Platform 3 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images.

Security Fix(es):

• kubernetes: Volume security can be sidestepped with innocent emptyDir and subpath (CVE-2017-1002101)
  
• pod: Malicious containers can delete any file from the node (CVE-2017-1002102)
  

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

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1525130 - CVE-2017-1002101 kubernetes: Volume security can be sidestepped with innocent emptyDir and subpath
• BZ - 1551818 - CVE-2017-1002102 pod: Malicious containers can delete any file from the node
• BZ - 1554174 - atomic-openshift-docker-excluder allows docker-1.13 on OpenShift 3.7

CVEs

• CVE-2017-1002101
• CVE-2017-1002102

References

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