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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-44717: golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-44717: golang: syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/01/2022
Created
03/12/2022
Added
03/11/2022
Modified
11/23/2023

Description

Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-butane
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-containernetworking-plugins
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-o
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-tools
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-ignition
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift-clients
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-runc

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