Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 atomic-openshift security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 atomic-openshift security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for atomic-openshift is now available for Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform 3.9.

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.

Security Fix(es):

• kubernetes: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-1002101 allows for arbitrary file
  write via `kubectl cp` (CVE-2019-11246)
  

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 OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 see the following documentation for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.9/release_notes/ocp_3_9_release_notes.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1721704 - CVE-2019-11246 kubernetes: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-1002101 allows for arbitrary file write via `kubectl cp`

CVEs

• CVE-2019-11246

References

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