SB20230808121 - Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
Published: August 8, 2023 Updated: January 9, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 14 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41723)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in the HPACK decoder. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP/2 stream to the application, cause resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Inadequate Encryption Strength (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3089)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists within the OpenShift container platform configuration with enabled FIPS mode, which resulted in usage of not validated cryptographic modules. A remote attacker can perform various attacks against not validated cryptographic modules and gain access to sensitive information.
3) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45869)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition within the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel when nested virtualisation and the TDP MMU are enabled. A remote user on the guest OS can exploit the race and crash the host OS.
4) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0458)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the do_prlimit() function. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
5) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1998)
The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect implementation of the Spectre v2 SMT mitigations, related to calling prctl with PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to kernel memory from userspace.
6) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3090)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the ipvlan network driver in Linux kernel. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
7) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22652)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the "read_file" function. A remote attacker can trigger stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
8) Improper certificate validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28321)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper certificate validation when matching wildcards in TLS certificates for IDN names. A remote attacker crate a specially crafted certificate that will be considered trusted by the library.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that curl is built to use OpenSSL, Schannel or Gskit.
9) Expected behavior violation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28322)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a logic error when sending HTTP POST and PUT requests using the same handle. The libcurl can erroneously use the read callback (CURLOPT_READFUNCTION) to ask for data to send, even when the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option has been set, if the same handle previously was used to issue a PUT request which used that callback. As a result, the application can misbehave and either send off the wrong data or use memory after free or similar in the second transfer.
10) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28484)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
11) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-29469)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources when working with hashes of empty dict strings. A remote attacker can and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
12) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-32681)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to requests has been leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers when redirected to an HTTPS endpoint. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.
13) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-35788)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the fl_set_geneve_opt() function in net/sched/cls_flower.c in Linux kernel. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
14) Untrusted search path (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-38408)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of an insecure search path within the PKCS#11 feature in ssh-agent. A remote attacker can trick the victim into connecting to a malicious SSH server and execute arbitrary code on the system, if an agent is forwarded to an attacker-controlled system.
Note, this vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU2015 (CVE-2016-10009).
Remediation
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