SB2021072623 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7



SB2021072623 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7

Published: July 26, 2021 Updated: August 9, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2021072623
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33909)

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

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow during size_t-to-int conversion when creating, mounting, and deleting a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB. An unprivileged local user can write up to 10-byte string to an offset of exactly -2GB-10B below the beginning of a vmalloc()ated kernel buffer.

Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to exploit the our-of-bounds write vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.


2) Uncontrolled Memory Allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33910)

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

The vulnerability exists due to stack exhaustion within the basic/unit-name.c in systemd. A local user can crash the systemd (PID 1) and cause a kernel panic.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.