Important: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for 2.4.4 security update

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.4 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 the Red Hat 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)
• containerd: pulling and extracting crafted container image may result in Unix file permission changes (CVE-2021-32760)
• buildkit: Data disclosure in provenance attestation describing a build (CVE-2023-26054)

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
• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for ARM 64 2 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1982681 - CVE-2021-32760 containerd: pulling and extracting crafted container image may result in Unix file permission changes
• BZ - 2176447 - CVE-2023-26054 buildkit: Data disclosure in provenance attestation describing a build
• 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-5022 - Containers for 2.4.4
• OSSM-3771 - Can not prevent routes being created for additionalIngress
• OSSM-4873 - Envoy OAuth filter sanitizes auth headers on pass_through requests
• OSSM-4957 - istio CNI should be in /var/lib/cni/bin (old title: Regression: multus-thick doesn't look for CNI binaries in /opt/multus/bin)
• OSSM-4963 - Cherry-pick OSSM-4957 to 2.4.x
• OSSM-4851 - Avoid nil value in injection template replacement

CVEs

• CVE-2021-32760
• CVE-2022-48303
• CVE-2023-3341
• CVE-2023-4527
• CVE-2023-4806
• CVE-2023-4813
• CVE-2023-4911
• CVE-2023-26054
• CVE-2023-29491
• CVE-2023-30630
• CVE-2023-34969
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-40217

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003