RHSA-2020:5359 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.5.23 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs.

This release includes a security update for Kubernetes for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

• kubernetes: Docker config secrets leaked when file is malformed and loglevel >= 4 (CVE-2020-8564)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.23. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:5356

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/4.5/release_notes/ocp-4-5-release-notes.html

This update fixes the following bug among others:

• Previously, an `OperatorGroup` resource with a missing `status` block in any namespace could cause a runtime error in the web console when installing a new Operator from OperatorHub. The problem has been fixed. (BZ#1896601)

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.5.23-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:368970a5052e600b467de7ab2868a04cdd6cdb991eb9dfbf3473a199d6fe4a4e

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.5.23-s390x

The image digest is sha256:c79943d51dfdbf1dcdcdf277172a872468459a4b6759afef2edabe51643f1e54

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.5.23-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:4cb29729fae2b624d0ca3b246763e7255a0ac626d1972f982b69313cb8b08613

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 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 Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available
at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.5/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 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/4.5/release_notes/ocp-4-5-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.5/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.5 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.5 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.5 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.5 for RHEL 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1869320 - [vsphere]Machines phase should become 'Failed' when its instance is deleted frome vsphere client
• BZ - 1886383 - Additional PVs privisioned over a different dm-X symlink but sharing the same underlying devicePath
• BZ - 1886637 - CVE-2020-8564 kubernetes: Docker config secrets leaked when file is malformed and loglevel >= 4
• BZ - 1891168 - Restricting Resource Locations blocks Openshift installer progress in Google Cloud Platform due to policies.
• BZ - 1891527 - openshift-object-counts quota is not dynamically updating as the resource is deleted.
• BZ - 1892583 - [release 4.5] prometheus: Fix bug in reflector not recovering from "Too large resource version"
• BZ - 1896601 - Web console going blank after selecting any operator to install from OperatorHub
• BZ - 1896914 - Route with `haproxy.router.openshift.io/timeout: 365d` kills the ingress controller
• BZ - 1897543 - Backup taken on one master cannot be restored on other masters
• BZ - 1898199 - [4.5 upgrade][alert]CloudCredentialOperatorDown
• BZ - 1900013 - Revert KUBELET_LOG_LEVEL back to level 3 (
• BZ - 1900491 - When scaling replicas to zero, Octavia loadbalancer pool members are not updated accordingly
• BZ - 1900725 - Using shareProcessNamespace with default pod image leaves unreaped processes
• BZ - 1902803 - ListBundles returns incorrect replaces/skips when bundles have been added via semver-skippatch mode
• BZ - 1904082 - The MCO GCP-OP tests fail consistently on containerruntime tests with "connection refused"
• BZ - 1904554 - TestListPackages is flaky

CVEs

• CVE-2015-8011
• CVE-2019-20907
• CVE-2020-8177
• CVE-2020-8564

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate