Issued:
2024-12-02
Updated:
2024-12-02

RHSA-2024:8704 - Moderate: Kube Descheduler Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 5.0.2 for RHEL 9

Synopsis

Moderate: Kube Descheduler Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 5.0.2 for RHEL 9

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Kube Descheduler Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 5.0.2 for RHEL 9

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

The Kube Descheduler Operator for Red Hat OpenShift is an optional operator that deploys the descheduler, which is responsible for evicting pods based on certain strategies.

Security Fix(es):

  • Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)
  • Calling Parse on a "// +build" build tag line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)
  • encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Kube Descheduler Operator5x86_64

Fixes

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References

Additional information