Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5635 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-02-24
Updated:
2021-02-24

RHSA-2020:5635 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.0 extras and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.0 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

This release also includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.

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):

  • jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in com.pastdev.httpcomponents.configuration.JndiConfiguration (CVE-2020-24750)
  • gogo/protobuf: plugin/unmarshal/unmarshal.go lacks certain index validation (CVE-2021-3121)
  • golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)

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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.7.0. See the following advisory for the container images for
this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:5633

All OpenShift Container Platform 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/4.7/updating/updating-cluster

  • between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between
  • minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 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/4.7/release_notes/ocp-4-7-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.7 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.7 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 1823765 - nfd-workers crash under an ipv6 environment
  • BZ - 1838802 - mysql8 connector from operatorhub does not work with metering operator
  • BZ - 1838845 - Metering operator can't connect to postgres DB from Operator Hub
  • BZ - 1841883 - namespace-persistentvolumeclaim-usage query returns unexpected values
  • BZ - 1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash
  • BZ - 1868294 - NFD operator does not allow customisation of nfd-worker.conf
  • BZ - 1882310 - CVE-2020-24750 jackson-databind: Serialization gadgets in com.pastdev.httpcomponents.configuration.JndiConfiguration
  • BZ - 1890672 - NFD is missing a build flag to build correctly
  • BZ - 1890741 - path to the CA trust bundle ConfigMap is broken in report operator
  • BZ - 1897346 - NFD worker pods not scheduler on a 3 node master/worker cluster
  • BZ - 1898373 - Metering operator failing upgrade from 4.4 to 4.6 channel
  • BZ - 1900125 - FIPS error while generating RSA private key for CA
  • BZ - 1906129 - OCP 4.7: Node Feature Discovery (NFD) Operator in CrashLoopBackOff when deployed from OperatorHub
  • BZ - 1908492 - OCP 4.7: Node Feature Discovery (NFD) Operator Custom Resource Definition file in olm-catalog is not in sync with the one in manifests dir leading to failed deployment from OperatorHub
  • BZ - 1913837 - The CI and ART 4.7 metering images are not mirrored
  • BZ - 1914869 - OCP 4.7 NFD - Operand configuration options for NodeFeatureDiscovery are empty, no supported image for ppc64le
  • BZ - 1916010 - olm skip range is set to the wrong range
  • BZ - 1921650 - CVE-2021-3121 gogo/protobuf: plugin/unmarshal/unmarshal.go lacks certain index validation
  • BZ - 1923998 - NFD Operator is failing to update and remains in Replacing state

CVEs

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.