Moderate: Logging Subsystem 5.5.8 - Red Hat OpenShift

Synopsis

Moderate: Logging Subsystem 5.5.8 - Red Hat OpenShift

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Logging Subsystem 5.5.8 - Red Hat OpenShift

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

Logging Subsystem 5.5.8 - Red Hat OpenShift

Security Fix(es):

  • express: "qs" prototype poisoning causes the hang of the node process (CVE-2022-24999)
  • golang: net/http: An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)

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 4.11 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 errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html

For Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.5, see the following instructions to apply this update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/logging/cluster-logging-upgrading.html

Affected Products

  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift 5 x86_64
  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Power, little endian 5 ppc64le
  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for IBM Z and LinuxONE 5 s390x
  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift for ARM 64 5 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2150323 - CVE-2022-24999 express: "qs" prototype poisoning causes the hang of the node process
  • BZ - 2161274 - CVE-2022-41717 golang: net/http: An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests
  • LOG-3630 - [release-5.5] Inconsistencies in vector normalization of systemd logs.