Home / mailings [RHSA-2022:9096-01] Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 7.0.0 [security update]
Posted on 30 January 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 7.0.0 [security update]
Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:9096-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:9096
Issue date: 2023-01-30
CVE Names: CVE-2021-25749 CVE-2021-46848 CVE-2022-21698
CVE-2022-27191 CVE-2022-35737
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1. Summary:
The components for Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Container 7.0.0
are now
available. This product release includes bug fixes and a moderate security
update 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
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.
2. Description:
Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers allows you to deploy
Windows container workloads running on Windows Server containers.
Security Fix(es):
* prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using
InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)
* golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)
* kubelet: runAsNonRoot logic bypass for Windows containers
(CVE-2021-25749)
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.
3. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2045880 - CVE-2022-21698 prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter
2064702 - CVE-2022-27191 golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server
2107261 - [WMCO] WMCO endpoints missing after WMCO restart in vSphere
2127808 - CVE-2021-25749 kubelet: runAsNonRoot logic bypass for Windows containers
5. JIRA issues fixed (https://issues.jboss.org/):
OCPBUGS-3509 - [WINC] Windows nodes name not matching hostname in GCP
OCPBUGS-3573 - Check if Windows defender is running doesnt work
OCPBUGS-4092 - Load balancer shows connectivity outage during Windows nodes upgrade
OCPBUGS-5749 - Installation of WMCO in different namespace fails
OCPBUGS-5803 - Windows nodes do not get drained (deconfigure) during the upgrade process
WINC-713 - Implement WICD bootstrap command
WINC-718 - WICD cleanup command (happy path)
WINC-731 - Run WICD service on Windows instances
WINC-732 - Nodes are bootstrapped with WICD bootstrap command
WINC-737 - Move hybrid-overlay configuration to WICD
WINC-738 - Kubelet service is described in services ConfigMap
WINC-739 - Configure azure node manager through WICD
WINC-740 - Configure kube-proxy through WICD
WINC-815 - GCP support for Windows Server 2022
WINC-830 - Use valid Windows Server 2022 image in platform=none job
WINC-848 - Windows exporter is configured by WICD
WINC-873 - Upgrade to go 1.19
WINC-874 - Pick up openshift/kubernetes 1.25 rebase updates
WINC-888 - WMCO?s user data secret in GCP does not include tags
WINC-927 - Stop dependent services before stopping a service in WICD
WINC-941 - Use IMDSv1 to get hostname in AWS
WINC-949 - Rename powershellVariablesInCommand
WINC-957 - Update containerd to 1.6.15
6. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25749
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-46848
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21698
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27191
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-35737
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
7. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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