Issued:
2023-10-30
Updated:
2023-10-30

RHSA-2023:6156 - Important: Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.1.0 security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.1.0 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

The components for Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.1.0 are now available. This product release includes bug fixes and security updates for the following packages: windows-machine-config-operator and windows-machine-config-operator-bundle.

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 support for Windows Containers allows you to deploy Windows container workloads running on Windows Server nodes.

Security Fix(es):

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

  • kubernetes: Bypass of seccomp profile enforcement (CVE-2023-2431)

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 Windows Machine Config Operator upgrades, see the following documentation: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/windows_containers/windows-node-upgrades.html

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform4.13x86_64

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