Important: Self Node Remediation Operator 0.4.1 security update

Synopsis

Important: Self Node Remediation Operator 0.4.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

This is an updated release of the Self Node Remediation Operator. The Self Node Remediation Operator replaces the Poison Pill Operator, and is delivered by Red Hat Workload Availability.

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

The Self Node Remediation Operator works in conjunction with the Machine Health Check or the Node Health Check Operators to provide automatic remediation of unhealthy nodes by rebooting them. This minimizes downtime for stateful applications and RWO volumes, as well as restoring compute capacity in the event of transient failures.

Security Fix(es):

  • golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, see 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, see:

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Workload Availability 1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2107342 - CVE-2022-30631 golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read