Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 runc security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 runc security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for runc is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.

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.

This advisory contains the runc RPM package for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.9. The runC tool is a lightweight, portable implementation of the Open Container Format (OCF) that provides a container runtime.

Security Fix(es):

• runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc (CVE-2019-16884)
  

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 4.2 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.2.9, for important instructions on
how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/release_notes/ocp-4-2-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1757214 - CVE-2019-16884 runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc

CVEs

• CVE-2019-16884

References

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