Issued:

2018-10-18

Updated:

2018-10-18

RHSA-2018:2946 - Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes.

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

Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes provides an application platform that reduces the complexity of developing and operating applications (monoliths and microservices) for OpenShift as a containerized platform.

The RHOAR Eclipse Vert.x 3.5.4 release serves as a replacement for RHOAR Eclipse Vert.x 3.5.3, and includes bug fixes and enhancements. For a detailed list of issues resolved in the community Eclipse Vert.x 3.5.4 release, see the release notes in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• vertx: WebSocket HTTP upgrade implementation holds the entire http request in memory before the handshake (CVE-2018-12541)

• vertx: API Validation XML Schemas do not forbid file system access (CVE-2018-12544)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1638384
• This content is not included.BZ - 1638391

CVEs

• CVE-2018-12541
• CVE-2018-12544

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=catRhoar.eclipse.vertx&version=3.5.4
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_application_runtimes/1/html-single/red_hat_openshift_application_runtimes_release_notes/

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.