Moderate: rhc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-41723  

Synopsis

Moderate: rhc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for rhc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

rhc is a client tool and daemon that connects the system to Red Hat hosted services enabling system and subscription management.

Security Fix(es):

  • net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from 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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2178358 - CVE-2022-41723 net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding
  • BZ - 2222782 - update rhc to 0.2.3
  • BZ - 2223405 - `rhc connect` fails to contact config manager w/stage
  • BZ - 2227014 - Bash completion of rhc does not work
  • BZ - 2227019 - rhc fails to retrieve the system profile
  • BZ - 2227141 - RFE: Prevent message content being logged at any level