SB2024021538 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13



SB2024021538 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13

Published: February 15, 2024 Updated: December 6, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024021538
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 61
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 2% Medium 18% Low 80%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 61 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6535)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the nvmet_tcp_execute_request() function in the Linux kernel's NVMe driver. A remote attacker can send specially crafted NVMe-oF/TCP packets to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-45887)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c in Linux kernel. A local user can exploit the race and crash the kernel.


3) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0458)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the do_prlimit() function. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


4) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1074)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol. A local user can start a malicious network service and then connect to remotely, forcing the kernel to leak memory.


5) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1075)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the tls_is_tx_ready() function in the net/tls stack of the Linux Kernel. A local user can trigger a type confusion error and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


6) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1252)

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the Linux kernel’s Ext4 File System in how a user triggers several file operations simultaneously with the overlay FS usage. A local authenticated user can trigger a use-after-free error and escalate privileges on the system.


7) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1989)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the btsdio_remove() function in driversluetoothtsdio.c. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and escalate privileges on the system.


8) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2166)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in net/can/af_can.c when processing CAN frames. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


9) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2176)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the compare_netdev_and_ip() function in drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c in RDMA in the Linux Kernel. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.


10) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3141)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the r592_remove() function of drivers/memstick/host/r592.c in media access in the Linux kernel. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and escalate privileges on the system.


11) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4132)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the siano smsusb module in the Linux kernel. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and crash the kernel.


12) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4921)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the qfq_dequeue() function within the the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


13) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5717)

The vulnerability local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the Linux kernel's Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf) component. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


14) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6356)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the nvmet_tcp_build_iovec() function in the Linux kernel's NVMe driver. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted TCP packets to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


15) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6536)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the __nvmet_req_complete() function in the Linux kernel's NVMe driver. A remote attacker can send specially crafted NVMe-oF/TCP packets to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


16) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36946)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the nfqnl_mangle() function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c in the Linux kernel when processing IPv6 packets. A remote attacker can send specially crafted packets to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


17) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6606)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the smbCalcSize() function in fs/smb/client/netmisc.c file. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and gain access to sensitive information or crash the kernel.


18) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6610)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the smb2_dump_detail() function in fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and gain access to sensitive information or crash the kernel.


19) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6817)

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the netfilter nf_tables component in Linux kernel. A local authenticated user can trigger a use-after-free error and escalate privileges on the system.


20) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6932)

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the ipv4 igmp component in Linux kernel. A local authenticated user can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code.


21) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-7192)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the ctnetlink_create_conntrack() function in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c. A local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges can perform denial of service attack.


22) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20569)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a side channel issue in AMD CPUs. A remote user can influence the return address prediction and gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.


23) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23455)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the atm_tc_enqueue() function in net/sched/sch_atm.c in the Linux kernel. A local user can trigger a type confusion error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


24) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28328)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the az6027 driver in drivers/media/usb/dev-usb/az6027.c in the Linux Kernel. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


25) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28772)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the seq_buf_putmem_hex() function in lib/seq_buf.c. A local user can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


26) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-40283)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the l2cap_sock_release() function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


27) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45862)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the ENE UB6250 reader driver in drivers/usb/storage/ene_ub6250.c. A local user can trigger a boundary error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


28) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46813)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access checking in the #VC handler and instruction emulation of the SEV-ES emulation of MMIO accesses. A local user can gain arbitrary write access to kernel memory and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


29) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-0646)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input in the Linux kernel’s Transport Layer Security functionality in the way a user calls a function splice with a ktls socket as the destination. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


30) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-39189)

The vulnerability allows a guest user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of TLB flush operations in certain KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED situations in the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel. An attacker with unprivileged access to the guest OS can escalate privileges on the guest.


31) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28893)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the SUNRPC subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


32) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-49569)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A remote attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the system. Applications are only affected if they are using the ChrootOS, which is the default when using "Plain" versions of Open and Clone funcs (e.g. PlainClone).


33) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2078)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the nft_set_desc_concat_parse() function in Linux kernel. A local user can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.



34) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3064)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing large YAML documents. A remote attacker can consume excessive amounts of CPU or memory and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


35) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-44487)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly control of consumption for internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests with compressed HEADERS frames. A remote attacker can send a sequence of compressed HEADERS frames followed by RST_STREAM frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack, a.k.a. "Rapid Reset".

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.


36) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39325)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can bypass the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting by creating new connections while the current connections are still being processed, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


37) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-49568)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when handling responses from a Git server. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


38) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-47108)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to grpc Unary Server Interceptor does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing multiple requests. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


39) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3640)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in sco_sock_sendmsg() function of the Linux kernel HCI subsystem. A privileged local user can call ioct UFFDIO_REGISTER or other way trigger race condition to escalate privileges on the system.


40) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4204)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in Linux kernel eBPF. A local user trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the kernel.


41) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-30002)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the webcam support driver in video_usercopy() function in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c in Linux kernel. A local user can trigger leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


42) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-34866)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the handling of eBPF programs. A local user can run a specially crafted program on the system to trigger a type confusion and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.


43) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0168)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the Linux kernel’s smb2_ioctl_query_info function in the fs/cifs/smb2ops.c Common Internet File System (CIFS). A privileged (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


44) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0500)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in unrestricted eBPF usage by the BPF_BTF_LOAD in Linux kernel. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds write error in BPF subsystem and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


45) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0617)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the Linux kernel UDF file system functionality. A local user can supply a malicious UDF image to the udf_file_write_iter() function and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


46) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1462)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the the Linux kernel’s TeleTYpe subsystem caused by a race condition when using ioctls TIOCSPTLCK and TIOCGPTPEER and TIOCSTI and TCXONC with leakage of memory file. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and crash the system or read random kernel memory.


47) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2586)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the the netfilter subsystem implementation in Linux kernel when preventing one nft object from referencing an nft set in another nft table. A local user can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.


48) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28390)

The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in ems_usb_start_xmit in drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger double free error and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


49) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2663)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass firewall rules.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in nf_conntrack_irc in Linux kernel. A remote attacker can send unencrypted IRC with nf_conntrack_irc configured and bypass configured firewall rules.


50) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3524)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the ipv6_renew_options() function when retrieving a new IPv6 address from a malicious DHCP server. A remote attacker can force the system to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


51) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3545)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the area_cache_get() function in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cppcore.c. A local user can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


52) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3566)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition within the tcp_getsockopt() and tcp_setsockopt() functions in net/ipv4/tcp.c, do_ipv6_setsockopt() function in net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c, and tcp_v6_connect() function in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c in Linux kernel. A local user can exploit the race and escalate privileges on the system.


53) Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3594)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the intr_callback() function in drivers/net/usb/r8152.c can be forced to include excessive data info the log files. A local user can read the log files and gain access to sensitive data.

Note, the vulnerability can be triggered remotely.


54) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3619)

The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a DoS attack.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the l2cap_recv_acldata() function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c. An attacker with physical proximity to device can force the system to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


55) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3623)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition within the follow_page_pte() function in mm/gup.c. A local user can exploit the race and escalate privileges on the system.


56) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3707)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the intel_gvt_dma_map_guest_page() function in Intel GVT-g graphics driver. A local user can trigger a double free error and crash the kernel.


57) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-21499)

The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions to the kernel debugger when booted in secure boot environments. A local privileged user can bypass UEFI Secure Boot restrictions.


58) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23222)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to availability of pointer arithmetic via certain *_OR_NULL pointer types in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel. A local user can run a specially crafted program to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.


59) Missing initialization of resource (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24448)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to missing initialization of resource within the fs/nfs/dir.c in the Linux kernel. If an application sets the O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a regular file is found, ENOTDIR should occur, but the server instead returns uninitialized data in the file descriptor.


60) Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25265)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in Linux kernel due to certain binary files may have the exec-all attribute if they were built in approximately 2003 (e.g., with GCC 3.2.2 and Linux kernel 2.4.20). This can cause execution of bytes located in supposedly non-executable regions of a file.


61) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28388)

The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in the usb_8dev_start_xmit in drivers/net/can/usb/usb_8dev.c. A local user can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger double free error and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.