Announcing Istio 1.8.5

This release fixes the security vulnerability described in our April 15th post.

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Security update

• CVE-2021-28683: Envoy contains a remotely exploitable NULL pointer dereference and crash in TLS when an unknown TLS alert code is received.
  • CVSS Score: 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
• CVE-2021-28682: Envoy contains a remotely exploitable integer overflow in which a very large grpc-timeout value leads to unexpected timeout calculations.
  • CVSS Score: 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
• CVE-2021-29258: Envoy contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability where an HTTP2 request with an empty metadata map can cause Envoy to crash.
  • CVSS Score: 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H