Issued:

2020-09-22

Updated:

2020-09-22

RHSA-2020:3783 - Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.23 cluster-network-operator-container security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.23 cluster-network-operator-container security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for cluster-network-operator-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.

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

OpenShift Container Platform components are primarily written in Go (golang). The golang.org/x/text contains text-related packages which are used for text operations, such as character encodings, text transformations, and locale-specific text handling.

Security Fix(es):

• golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)

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 OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/release_notes/ocp-4-4-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at This page is not included, but the link has been rewritten to point to the nearest parent document.https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1853652

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14040

References

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

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.