Bug 1259867 (CVE-2015-5250) - CVE-2015-5250 OpenShift: Malformed JSON can cause API process crash
Summary: CVE-2015-5250 OpenShift: Malformed JSON can cause API process crash
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-5250
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1258641
Blocks: 1259869
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Reported: 2015-09-03 16:46 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2023-05-12 10:40 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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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.
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Last Closed: 2015-09-04 02:33:05 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1736 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openshift security update 2015-09-03 22:48:23 UTC

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
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