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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-34558: golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-34558: golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/15/2021
Created
08/12/2021
Added
08/12/2021
Modified
01/03/2024

Description

The crypto/tls package of Go through 1.16.5 does not properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type when doing a RSA based key exchange, allowing a malicious TLS server to cause a TLS client to panic.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-atomic-openshift-service-idler
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-butane
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-containernetworking-plugins
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-o
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-tools
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-golang-github-prometheus-promu
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-ignition
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift-clients
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift4-wincw-windows-machine-config-rhel8-operator
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-release-coreos

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