RHBA-2024:8986 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.21 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.16.21. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:8989

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory.
See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated
shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-release-notes.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-release-notes.html

You can download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata
for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests
can be found at
https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags.

The sha values for the release are as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:d9c75cf244c46c9683b4123d5e54caf217e1e4861f5e1f9f032b478912f472c4

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:c983d50bdc9ddcaa4a48536a9dbf96b5f448dab0cd96721bada68a00cdf922e2

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:0124d266740711947eeb11e0d4d2b3d7d7b906847e81849a7f1e276961faa2bc

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:9528b796bce43e099924cb15fc59c71f79f2d9169edd63bec7b65e70f7c28024

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate
release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift CLI (oc)
or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.16 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.16 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.16 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• OCPBUGS-36210 - When switching from ipForwarding: Global to Restricted, sysctl settings are not adjusted
• OCPBUGS-36806 - [4.16] rpm-ostree-fix-shadow-mode.service is failing after reboot.
• OCPBUGS-41490 - [4.16] Bootimage bump tracker
• OCPBUGS-42649 - [4.16] /boot/efi and /sysroot dir and subfiles are unlabeled_t
• OCPBUGS-43476 - [IBMCloud] install only checks first set of subnets (no pagination support)
• OCPBUGS-43964 - cvo trying to progress unaccepted release following scale toggle
• OCPBUGS-44043 - Setting ESP offload off for bonds does not work reliably
• OCPBUGS-44179 - [vSphere] network.devices, template and workspace will be cleared when deleting the controlplanemachineset, updating these fields will not trigger an update
• OCPBUGS-44180 - [4.16] E2E: test related to cpumanager state file check during kubelet restart fails

CVEs

• CVE-2024-6119
• CVE-2024-7006

References

(none)