syscall: don't close fd 0 on ForkExec error
CVE: CVE-2021-44717
Component: golang
CWE: CWE-200
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 4.7/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Release date: 2021-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

There's a flaw in golang's syscall.ForkExec() interface. An attacker who manages to first cause a file descriptor exhaustion for the process, then cause syscall.ForkExec() to be called repeatedly, could compromise data integrity and/or confidentiality in a somewhat uncontrolled way in programs linked with and using syscall.ForkExec().

Statement: * This flaw has had the severity level set to Moderate due to the attack complexity required to exhaust file descriptors at the time ForkExec is called, plus an attacker does not necessarily have direct control over where/how data is leaked.

* For Service Telemetry Framework, because the flaw's impact is lower, no update will be provided at this time for its containers.

* runc shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9 are not affected by this flaw because the flaw is already patched in the shipped versions.

Remediation:
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 see the following documentation,
which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions
on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/release_notes/ocp-4-10-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html
Before applying this update, you must apply all previously released errata
relevant to your system.

To apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.6/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.7/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.8/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.9/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.10/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.6/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.7/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.8/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.9/html/serverless/index
See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 documentation at:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.10/html/serverless/index
For details on how to install and use MTC, refer to:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/migration_toolkit_for_containers/installing-mtc.html
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 see the following documentation,
which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions
on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/release_notes/ocp-4-10-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 see the following documentation,
which will be updated shortly for this release, for moderate instructions
on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/release_notes/ocp-4-10-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how
to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.9/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html
This bug can be mitigated by raising the per-process file descriptor limit.