Announcing Istio 1.5.7
Istio 1.5.7 security release.
This release fixes the security vulnerability described in our June 30th, 2020 news post.
This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.5.7 and Istio 1.5.6.
BEFORE YOU UPGRADE
Things to know and prepare before upgrading.
DOWNLOAD
Download and install this release.
DOCS
Visit the documentation for this release.
SOURCE CHANGES
Inspect the full set of source code changes.
Security update
CVE-2020-12603: By sending a specially crafted packet, an attacker could cause Envoy to consume excessive amounts of memory when proxying HTTP/2 requests or responses.
- CVSS Score: 7.0 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE-2020-12605: An attacker could cause Envoy to consume excessive amounts of memory when processing specially crafted HTTP/1.1 packets.
- CVSS Score: 7.0 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE-2020-8663: An attacker could cause Envoy to exhaust file descriptors when accepting too many connections.
- CVSS Score: 7.0 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE-2020-12604: An attacker could cause increased memory usage when processing specially crafted packets.
- CVSS Score: 5.3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L