Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation Affecting openshift-clients-redistributable package, versions <0:4.12.0-202301312133.p0.gb05f7d4.assembly.stream.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-OPENSHIFTCLIENTSREDISTRIBUTABLE-5291089
  • published 15 Jul 2022
  • disclosed 12 Jul 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 openshift-clients-redistributable to version 0:4.12.0-202301312133.p0.gb05f7d4.assembly.stream.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:0727.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift-clients-redistributable package and not the openshift-clients-redistributable package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Uncontrolled recursion in Reader.Read in compress/gzip before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via an archive containing a large number of concatenated 0-length compressed files.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.5 high
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SUSE

6.2 medium