Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.69 packages and security update

Important

A flaw was found in the crypto/tls component. This vulnerability occurs during Transport Layer Security (TLS) session resumption when certificate authority (CA) settings are modified between the initial and resumed handshakes. An attacker could exploit this to bypass certificate validation, allowing a client or server to establish a connection that should have been rejected. This could lead to an authentication bypass under specific conditions.

The Go standard library function net/url.Parse insufficiently validated the host/authority component and accepted some invalid URLs by effectively treating garbage before an IP-literal as ignorable. The function should have rejected this as invalid.

CWE-1286 - Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input

A flaw was found in the Go standard library packages `crypto/x509` and `crypto/tls`. During the process of building a certificate chain, an attacker can provide a large number of intermediate certificates. This excessive input is not properly limited, leading to an uncontrolled amount of work being performed. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) condition, making the affected system or application unavailable to legitimate users.

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

A flaw was found in the `net` package of Go (golang), specifically when using the `LookupCNAME` function with the `cgo` DNS resolver. A remote attacker could exploit this by providing a very long Canonical Name (CNAME) response. This can trigger a double-free of C memory, leading to a crash and a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected application.

CWE-1341 - Multiple Releases of Same Resource or Handle