1.9 - RHSA-2019:3942

Problem Description:

An update for openshift is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 - x86_64

3. Description:

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the openshift container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1.24.

Security Fix(es):

* A flaw was found in kubectl that leaves http-cache files with read/write permissions for any user. In conjunction with a non-default value for - --cache-dir, this could lead to the cache content being placed in a location accessible to other users in the system. (CVE-2019-11244)

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.

4. Solution:

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.1.24, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/release_notes/ocp-4-1-rel ease-notes.html

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1703209 - CVE-2019-11244 kubernetes: Schema info written with world-writeable permissions when cached