SB2021110506 - Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization update for golang
Published: November 5, 2021
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31525)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a DoS attack.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when processing HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a large header to ReadRequest or ReadResponse and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15586)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in some net/http servers, as demonstrated by the httputil.ReverseProxy Handler. A remote attacker can exploit the race and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
3) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-16845)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in "ReadUvarint" and "ReadVarint" in "encoding/binary". A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
4) Incorrect calculation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3114)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect calculation performed by the application in "crypto/elliptic/p224.go". A remote attacker can generate incorrect outputs, related to an underflow of the lowest limb during the final complete reduction in the P-224 field.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.