Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.92 packages and security update

Important

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go program to try to allocate a large amount of memory, causing an out-of-memory condition and resulting in a denial of service.

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

A flaw was found in the net/url package in the Go standard library. The package does not enforce a limit on the number of unique query parameters it parses. A Go application using the net/http.Request.ParseForm method will try to process all parameters provided in the request. A specially crafted HTTP request containing a massive number of query parameters will cause the application to consume an excessive amount of memory, eventually causing the application to crash or become unresponsive, resulting in a denial of service.

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

A flaw was found in golang. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted certificate during the error string construction process within the `HostnameError.Error()` function. This flaw, caused by unbounded string concatenation, leads to excessive resource consumption. Successful exploitation can result in a denial of service (DoS) for the affected system.

CWE-1050 - Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop

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