Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.16 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

This release 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.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.7.16. See the following advisories for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2287

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory.
See the following Release Notes documentation for details about these changes:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/release_notes/ocp-4-7-rel ease-notes.html

This update fixes the following bugs among others:

Security Fix(es):

• gogo/protobuf: plugin/unmarshal/unmarshal.go lacks certain index validation (CVE-2021-3121)

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.

Additional Changes:

This update also fixes several bugs. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

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 - 1889659 - [Assisted-4.6] [cluster validation] Number of hosts validation is not enforced when Automatic role assigned
• BZ - 1921650 - CVE-2021-3121 gogo/protobuf: plugin/unmarshal/unmarshal.go lacks certain index validation
• BZ - 1932638 - Removing ssh keys MC does not remove the key from authorized_keys
• BZ - 1934180 - vsphere-problem-detector should check if datastore is part of datastore cluster
• BZ - 1937396 - when kuryr quotas are unlimited, we should not sent alerts
• BZ - 1939014 - [OSP] First public endpoint is used to fetch ignition config from Glance URL (with multiple endpoints) on OSP
• BZ - 1939553 - Binary file uploaded to a secret in OCP 4 GUI is not properly converted to Base64-encoded string
• BZ - 1940275 - [IPI Baremetal] Revert Sending full ignition to masters
• BZ - 1942603 - [4.7z] Network policies in ovn-kubernetes don't support external traffic from router when the endpoint publishing strategy is HostNetwork
• BZ - 1944046 - Warn users when using an unsupported browser such as IE
• BZ - 1944575 - Duplicate alert rules are displayed on console for thanos-querier api return wrong results
• BZ - 1945702 - Operator dependency not consistently chosen from default channel
• BZ - 1946682 - [OVN] Source IP is not EgressIP if configured allow 0.0.0.0/0 in the EgressFirewall
• BZ - 1947091 - Incorrect skipped status for conditional tasks in the pipeline run
• BZ - 1947427 - Bootstrap ignition shim doesn't follow proxy settings
• BZ - 1948398 - [oVirt] remove ovirt_cafile from ovirt-credentials secret
• BZ - 1949541 - Kuryr-Controller crashes when it's missing the status object
• BZ - 1950290 - KubeClientCertificateExpiration alert is confusing, without explanation in the documentation
• BZ - 1951210 - Pod log filename no longer in <pod-name>-<container-name>.log format
• BZ - 1953475 - worker pool went degraded due to no rpm-ostree on rhel worker during applying new mc
• BZ - 1954121 - [ceo] [release-4.7] Operator goes degraded when a second internal node ip is added after install
• BZ - 1955210 - OCP 4.6 Build fails when filename contains an umlaut
• BZ - 1955418 - 4.8 -> 4.7 rollbacks broken on unrecognized flowschema openshift-etcd-operator
• BZ - 1955482 - [4.7] Drop high-cardinality metrics from kube-state-metrics which aren't used
• BZ - 1955600 - e2e unidling test flakes in CI
• BZ - 1956565 - Need ACM Managed Cluster Info metric enabled for OCP monitoring telemetry
• BZ - 1956980 - OVN-Kubernetes leaves stale AddressSets around if the deletion was missed.
• BZ - 1957308 - Customer tags cannot be seen in S3 level when set spec.managementState from Managed-> Removed-> Managed in configs.imageregistry with high ratio
• BZ - 1957499 - OperatorHub - console accepts any value for "Infrastructure features" annotation
• BZ - 1958416 - openshift-oauth-apiserver apiserver pod crashloopbackoffs
• BZ - 1958467 - [4.7] Webscale: sriov vfs are not created and sriovnetworknodestate indicates sync succeeded - state is not correct
• BZ - 1958873 - Device Replacemet UI, The status of the disk is "replacement ready" before I clicked on "start replacement"
• BZ - 1959546 - [4.7] storage-operator/vsphere-problem-detector causing upgrades to fail that would have succeeded in past versions
• BZ - 1959737 - Unable to assign nodes for EgressIP even if the egress-assignable label is set
• BZ - 1960093 - Console not works well against a proxy in front of openshift clusters
• BZ - 1960111 - Port 8080 of oVirt CSI driver is causing collisions with other services
• BZ - 1960542 - manifests: invalid selector in ServiceMonitor makes CVO hotloop
• BZ - 1960544 - Overly generic CSS rules for dd and dt elements breaks styling elsewhere in console
• BZ - 1960562 - manifests: invalid selector in ServiceMonitor makes CVO hotloop
• BZ - 1960589 - manifests: extra "spec.version" in console quickstarts makes CVO hotloop
• BZ - 1960645 - [Backport 4.7] Add virt_platform metric to the collected metrics
• BZ - 1960686 - GlobalConfigPage is constantly requesting resources
• BZ - 1961069 - CMO end-to-end tests work only on AWS
• BZ - 1961367 - Conformance tests for OpenStack require the Cinder client that is not included in the "tests" image
• BZ - 1961518 - manifests: invalid selector in ServiceMonitor makes CVO hotloop
• BZ - 1961557 - [release-4.7] respect the shutdown-delay-duration from OpenShiftAPIServerConfig
• BZ - 1961719 - manifests: invalid namespace in ClusterRoleBinding makes CVO hotloop
• BZ - 1961887 - TaskRuns Tab in PipelineRun Details Page makes cluster based calls for TaskRuns
• BZ - 1962314 - openshift-marketplace pods in CrashLoopBackOff state after RHACS installed with an SCC with readOnlyFileSystem set to true
• BZ - 1962493 - Kebab menu of taskrun contains Edit options which should not be present
• BZ - 1962637 - Nodes tainted after configuring additional host iface
• BZ - 1962819 - OCP v4.7 installation with OVN-Kubernetes fails with error "egress bandwidth restriction -1 is not equals"
• BZ - 1962949 - e2e-metal-ipi and related jobs fail to bootstrap due to multipe VIP's
• BZ - 1963141 - packageserver clusteroperator Available condition set to false on any Deployment spec change
• BZ - 1963243 - HAproxy pod logs showing error "another server named 'pod:httpd-7c7ccfffdc-wdkvk:httpd:8080-tcp:10.128.x.x:8080' was already defined at line 326, please use distinct names"
• BZ - 1964322 - UI, The status of "Used Capacity Breakdown [Pods]" is "Not available"
• BZ - 1964568 - Failed to upgrade from 4.6.25 to 4.7.8 due to the machine-config degradation
• BZ - 1965075 - [4.7z] After upgrade from 4.5.16 to 4.6.17, customer's application is seeing re-transmits
• BZ - 1965932 - [oauth-server] bump k8s.io/apiserver to 1.20.3
• BZ - 1966358 - Build failure on s390x
• BZ - 1966798 - [tests] Release 4.7 broken due to the usage of wrong OCS version
• BZ - 1966810 - Failing Test vendor/k8s.io/kube-aggregator/pkg/apiserver TestProxyCertReload due to hardcoded certificate expiration
• BZ - 1967328 - [IBM][ROKS] Enable volume snapshot controllers on IBM Cloud
• BZ - 1967966 - prometheus-k8s pods can't be scheduled due to volume node affinity conflict
• BZ - 1967972 - [calico] rbac-proxy container in kube-proxy fails to create tokenreviews
• BZ - 1970322 - [OVN]EgressFirewall doesn't work well as expected

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3121
• CVE-2021-3501
• CVE-2021-3543
• CVE-2021-27219

References

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