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High ELSA-2020-5766 5 CVEs

Important: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container kata-image kata-runtime kata kubernetes olcne security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Published Jul 22, 2020 · Updated Jul 22, 2020

Summary

kernel-uek-container
[4.14.35-1902.303.5.3.el7]
- rds: Deregister all FRWR mr with free_mr (Hans Westgaard Ry) [Orabug: 31476202]
- Revert 'rds: Do not cancel RDMAs that have been posted to the HCA' (Gerd Rausch) [Orabug: 31475329]
- Revert 'rds: Introduce rds_conn_to_path helper' (Gerd Rausch) [Orabug: 31475329]
- Revert 'rds: Three cancel fixes' (Gerd Rausch) [Orabug: 31475318]

[4.14.35-1902.303.5.2.el7]
- rds: Three cancel fixes (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31463014]

[4.14.35-1902.303.5.1.el7]
- x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation (Mark Gross) [Orabug: 31446720] {CVE-2020-0543}
- x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation (Mark Gross) [Orabug: 31446720] {CVE-2020-0543}
- x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches() (Mark Gross) [Orabug: 31446720] {CVE-2020-0543}
- x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id (Mark Gross) [Orabug: 31446720] {CVE-2020-0543}

[4.14.35-1902.303.5.el7]
- net/mlx5: Decrease default mr cache size (Artemy Kovalyov) [Orabug: 31446379]

[4.14.35-1902.303.4.el7]
- net/rds: suppress memory allocation failure reports (Manjunath Patil) [Orabug: 31422157]
- rds: Do not cancel RDMAs that have been posted to the HCA (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31422151]
- rds: Introduce rds_conn_to_path helper (Hakon Bugge) [Orabug: 31422151]
- xen/manage: enable C_A_D to force reboot (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 31422147]

kata-image
[1.7.3-1.0.5.1]
- Address Kata CVE 2023

kata-runtime
[1.7.3-1.0.5]
- Address Kata CVE-2020-2023
- Address Kata CVE-2020-2024
- Address Kata CVE-2020-2025
- Address Kata CVE-2020-2026

kata
[1.7.3-1.0.7]
- Address CVE-2020-2023
- Address CVE-2020-2024
- Address CVE-2020-2025
- Address CVE-2020-2026

kubernetes
[1.14.9-1.0.6]
- CVE-2020-8559: Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster
- CVE-2020-8557: Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts

[1.14.9-1.0.5]
- Update dependency on Kata containers to a build that includes fixes for CVE-2020-2023 thru CVE-2020-2026

olcne
[1.0.5-3]
- update registry image mirroring script

[1.0.5-2]
- CVE-2020-8559: Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster
- CVE-2020-8557: Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts
- Update bootstrap scripts

[1.0.5-1]
- Update Kata Containers to address CVEs 2020-2023 thru 2020-2026

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 7 kata 0:1.7.3-1.0.7.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kata-image 0:1.7.3-1.0.5.1.ol7_202007011859
Oracle Linux · 7 kata-runtime 0:1.7.3-1.0.5.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kernel-uek-container 0:4.14.35-1902.303.5.3.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kubeadm 0:1.14.9-1.0.6.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kubectl 0:1.14.9-1.0.6.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 kubelet 0:1.14.9-1.0.6.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 olcne-agent 0:1.0.5-3.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 olcne-api-server 0:1.0.5-3.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 olcne-nginx 0:1.0.5-3.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 olcne-utils 0:1.0.5-3.el7
Oracle Linux · 7 olcnectl 0:1.0.5-3.el7

Vulnerabilities 5

  • High 8.8

    Kata Containers - Cloud Hypervisor guests persist filesystem changes to the underlying host image file

    Kata Containers before 1.11.0 on Cloud Hypervisor persists guest filesystem changes to the underlying image file on the host. A malicious guest can overwrite the image file to gain control of all subsequent guest VMs. Since Kata Containers uses the same VM im…

  • High 7.8

    Kata Containers - Guests can trick the kata-runtime into mounting the container image on any host path

    A malicious guest compromised before a container creation (e.g. a malicious guest image or a guest running multiple containers) can trick the kata runtime into mounting the untrusted container filesystem on any host path, potentially allowing for code executi…

  • Medium 6.5

    Kata Containers - Guests can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host

    An improper link resolution vulnerability affects Kata Containers versions prior to 1.11.0. Upon container teardown, a malicious guest can trick the kata-runtime into unmounting any mount point on the host and all mount points underneath it, potentiality resu…

  • Medium 6.4
    CVE-2020-8559 Public exploit

    Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster

    The Kubernetes kube-apiserver in versions v1.6-v1.15, and versions prior to v1.16.13, v1.17.9 and v1.18.6 are vulnerable to an unvalidated redirect on proxied upgrade requests that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges from a node compromise to a ful…

  • Medium 5.5

    Kubernetes node disk Denial of Service by writing to container /etc/hosts

    The Kubernetes kubelet component in versions 1.1-1.16.12, 1.17.0-1.17.8 and 1.18.0-1.18.5 do not account for disk usage by a pod which writes to its own /etc/hosts file. The /etc/hosts file mounted in a pod by kubelet is not included by the kubelet eviction m…