Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3

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

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language.

Security Fix(es) for openshift-clients:

• golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)
• golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics (CVE-2022-41724)
• golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2022-41725)
• golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation (CVE-2023-24534)
• golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2023-24536)
• golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)
• golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)
• golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)
• golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)
• golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes (CVE-2023-29400)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2161274 - CVE-2022-41717 golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests
• BZ - 2178488 - CVE-2022-41725 golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 2178492 - CVE-2022-41724 golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics
• BZ - 2184481 - CVE-2023-24538 golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters
• BZ - 2184482 - CVE-2023-24536 golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 2184483 - CVE-2023-24534 golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation
• BZ - 2184484 - CVE-2023-24537 golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing
• BZ - 2196026 - CVE-2023-24539 golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values
• BZ - 2196027 - CVE-2023-24540 golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace
• BZ - 2196029 - CVE-2023-29400 golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes

CVEs

• CVE-2022-41717
• CVE-2022-41724
• CVE-2022-41725
• CVE-2023-24534
• CVE-2023-24536
• CVE-2023-24537
• CVE-2023-24538
• CVE-2023-24539
• CVE-2023-24540
• CVE-2023-29400

References

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