Bug 1259867 (CVE-2015-5250)

Summary:	CVE-2015-5250 OpenShift: Malformed JSON can cause API process crash
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bleanhar, ccoleman, dmcphers, jdetiber, jialiu, jkeck, jokerman, kseifried, lmeyer, mmccomas
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was found that improper error handling in the API server could cause the master process to crash. A user with network access to the master could use this flaw to crash the master process.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-09-04 02:33:05 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1258641
Bug Blocks:	1259869

Description Kurt Seifried 2015-09-03 16:46:35 UTC

Jordan Liggitt of the Red Hat OpenShift Team reports:

Malformed JSON can cause the OpenShift Master/Broker to exit unexpectedly.

External References:
https://github.com/openshift/origin/issues/4374

Acknowledgement:

Red Hat would like to thank Jordan Liggitt of the Red Hat OpenShift Team for reporting this issue.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-09-03 18:48:43 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL 7 Version of OpenShift Enterprise 3.0

Via RHSA-2015:1736 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1736