Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 update for golang

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU88184

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45288

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient limitations placed on the amount of CONTINUATION frames that can be sent within a single HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: 4.12.0 - 4.12.55

runc (Red Hat package): before 1.1.6-5.3.rhaos4.12.el8

ovn23.06 (Red Hat package): before 23.06.3-29.el8fdp

openshift4-aws-iso (Red Hat package): before 4.12.0-202404161006.p0.gd2acdd5.assembly.stream.el8

openshift-kuryr (Red Hat package): before 4.12.0-202404161006.p0.g8fd2f8b.assembly.stream.el8

openshift-ansible (Red Hat package): before 4.12.0-202404161006.p0.gd97dd6f.assembly.stream.el8

kernel-rt (Red Hat package): before 4.18.0-372.100.1.rt7.260.el8_6

containernetworking-plugins (Red Hat package): before 1.4.0-1.2.rhaos4.12.el8

butane (Red Hat package): before 0.16.0-2.3.rhaos4.12.el8

skopeo (Red Hat package): before 1.9.4-3.3.rhaos4.12.el9

podman (Red Hat package): before 4.4.1-2.2.rhaos4.12.el8

openshift-clients (Red Hat package): before 4.12.0-202404161006.p0.gd691257.assembly.stream.el9

openshift (Red Hat package): before 4.12.0-202404161006.p0.g054f0ba.assembly.stream.el9

ignition (Red Hat package): before 2.14.0-7.2.rhaos4.12.el8

cri-tools (Red Hat package): before 1.25.0-2.3.el9

cri-o (Red Hat package): before 1.25.5-14.2.rhaos4.12.git4956519.el8

conmon (Red Hat package): before 2.1.2-6.3.rhaos4.12.el9

buildah (Red Hat package): before 1.23.4-5.3.rhaos4.12.el9

External links

http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1899

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.