Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for 2.3.8 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for 2.3.8 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.3 for RHEL 8.

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 OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.

Security Fix(es):

  • golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)

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 details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for Power 2 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for IBM Z 2 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2242010 - envoy: Denial of service when using HTTP/2 protocol
  • BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
  • OSSM-4996 - Containers for 2.3.8