I am currently running istio 1.2.5 in our system. It was declared vulnerable and 1.2.7 was released as a remediation.
Environment - Kubernetes - 1.13.11-gke.9 (GKE)
Helm version I am using - v2.14.1
I am using helm to deploy and upgrade istio. When I did it from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7 upgrade, it failed with following error:
error: UPGRADE FAILED: Job.batch "istio-init-crd-10" is invalid: spec.template: Invalid value: core.PodTemplateSpec{ObjectMeta:v1.ObjectMeta{Name:"", GenerateName:"", Namespace:"", SelfLink:"", UID:"", ResourceVersion:"", Generation:0, CreationTimestamp:v1.Time{Time:time.Time{wall:0x0, ext:0, loc:(*time.Location)(nil)}}, DeletionTimestamp:(*v1.Time)(nil), DeletionGracePeriodSeconds:(*int64)(nil), Labels:map[string]string{"job-name":"istio-init-crd-10", "controller-uid":"9f3eb82a-cf4f-11e9-88aa-42010a000009"}, Annotations:map[string]string{"sidecar.istio.io/inject":"false"}, OwnerReferences:[]v1.OwnerReference(nil), Initializers:(*v1.Initializers)(nil), Finalizers:[]string(nil), ClusterName:""}, Spec:core.PodSpec{Volumes:[]core.Volume{core.Volume{Name:"crd-10", VolumeSource:core.VolumeSource{HostPath:(*core.HostPathVolumeSource)(nil), EmptyDir:(*core.EmptyDirVolumeSource)(nil), GCEPersistentDisk:(*core.GCEPersistentDiskVolumeSource)(nil), AWSElasticBlockStore:(*core.AWSElasticBlockStoreVolumeSource)(nil), GitRepo:(*core.GitRepoVolumeSource)(nil), Secret:(*core.SecretVolumeSource)(nil), NFS:(*core.NFSVolumeSource)(nil), ISCSI:(*core.ISCSIVolumeSource)(nil), Glusterfs:(*core.GlusterfsVolumeSource)(nil), PersistentVolumeClaim:(*core.PersistentVolumeClaimVolumeSource)(nil), RBD:(*core.RBDVolumeSource)(nil), Quobyte:(*core.QuobyteVolumeSource)(nil), FlexVolume:(*core.FlexVolumeSource)(nil), Cinder:(*core.CinderVolumeSource)(nil), CephFS:(*core.CephFSVolumeSource)(nil), Flocker:(*core.FlockerVolumeSource)(nil), DownwardAPI:(*core.DownwardAPIVolumeSource)(nil), FC:(*core.FCVolumeSource)(nil), AzureFile:(*core.AzureFileVolumeSource)(nil), ConfigMap:(*core.ConfigMapVolumeSource)(0xc01f930400), VsphereVolume:(*core.VsphereVirtualDiskVolumeSource)(nil), AzureDisk:(*core.AzureDiskVolumeSource)(nil), PhotonPersistentDisk:(*core.PhotonPersistentDiskVolumeSource)(nil), Projected:(*core.ProjectedVolumeSource)(nil), 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