SB2025050802 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
Published: May 8, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-55549)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in xsltGetInheritedNsList. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
2) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24855)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in numbers.c when handling nested XPath evaluations. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML input to the application, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27516)
The vulnerability allows a local user to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method. A local user can execute arbitrary code on the system.
4) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-0395)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when the assert() function fails. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.