An OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.2.0 security update has been released.
RHSA-2022:0855-01: Moderate: OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.2.0 security update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.2.0 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0855-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0855
Issue date: 2022-03-14
CVE Names: CVE-2021-36221 CVE-2021-44716
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1. Summary:
OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.2.0 is now available.
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 links in the References section.
2. Description:
OpenShift sandboxed containers support for OpenShift Container Platform
provides users with built-in support for running Kata containers as an
additional, optional runtime.
This advisory contains an update for OpenShift sandboxed containers with
enhancements, security updates, and bug fixes.
Space precludes documenting all of the updates to OpenShift sandboxed
containers in this advisory. See the following Release Notes documentation,
which will be updated shortly for this release, for details about these
changes:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/sandboxed_containers/sandboxed-containers-release-notes.html
Security Fixes:
* net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache (CVE-2021-44716)
* net/http/httputil: panic due to racy read of persistConn after handler
panic (CVE-2021-36221)
For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
pages listed in the References section.
3. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/sandboxed_containers/upgrade-sandboxed-containers.html
4. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1995656 - CVE-2021-36221 golang: net/http/httputil: panic due to racy read of persistConn after handler panic
2030801 - CVE-2021-44716 golang: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache
5. JIRA issues fixed ( https://issues.jboss.org/):
KATA-1015 - 1.2: unused sourceImage field in KataConfig is confusing
KATA-1019 - 1.2: annotations state Operator is only supported on OCP 4.8
KATA-1027 - Newer kata-containers shimv2 (from kata-2.2.0 onwards) doesn't work with OCP.
KATA-1118 - Attempt to uninstall while installation is in progress blocks
KATA-1134 - Metrics doesn't work with the latest runtime cgroups improvements and simplifications
KATA-1183 - security warning when creating daemonset for kata-monitor
KATA-1184 - MachineConfigPool kata-oc is not removed with KataConfig CRD is deleted
KATA-1189 - pods for kata-monitor daemonset don't start: SCC issues
KATA-1190 - Operator not reconciling when node labels are changed
KATA-1195 - Error: CreateContainer failed: Permission denied (os error 13): unknown
KATA-1205 - openshift-sandboxed-containers-operator namespace not labelled for kata metrics
KATA-1219 - kata-monitor will forget about a kata pod if an error happens while retrieving the metrics
KATA-1222 - daemonset creation fails with reconciler error
KATA-1224 - wrong channels and default version in internal build
KATA-1225 - upgrade from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 failed
KATA-1247 - kataconfig can't be applied due to syntax error
KATA-1249 - use official pullspec for metrics daemonset as default in kataconfig CRD
KATA-1288 - changes to spec.kataMonitorImage are not reconciled
KATA-1334 - Unable to loop mount file based image inside Kata container
KATA-1340 - runtime installation shows no progress after creating kataconfig
KATA-1383 - fix RHSA-2022:0658 (cyrus-sasl)
KATA-553 - Worker node is not being created when scaling up a cluster with the Kata operator installed
KATA-588 - kata 2.0: stop a container spam crio logs continously
KATA-817 - There are no logs coming from kata-containers agent
6. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36221
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44716
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
7. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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