Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:5070 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-08-10
Updated:
2022-08-10

RHSA-2022:5070 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.0 extras and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.0 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 4.11.

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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.0. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5068

Security Fix(es):

  • golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS

(CVE-2021-38561)

  • prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using

InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)

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.

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.11 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.11 for RHEL 8 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.11 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2042536 - OCP 4.10: nfd-topology-updater daemonset fails to get created on worker nodes - forbidden: unable to validate against any security context constraint
  • BZ - 2042652 - Unable to deploy hw-event-proxy operator
  • BZ - 2045880 - CVE-2022-21698 prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter
  • BZ - 2047308 - Remove metrics and events for master port offsets
  • BZ - 2055049 - No pre-caching for NFD images
  • BZ - 2055436 - nfd-master tracking the wrong api group
  • BZ - 2055439 - nfd-master tracking the wrong api group (operand)
  • BZ - 2057569 - nfd-worker: drop 'custom-' prefix from matchFeatures custom rules
  • BZ - 2058256 - LeaseDuration for NFD Operator seems to be rather small, causing Operator restarts when running etcd defrag
  • BZ - 2062849 - hw event proxy is not binding on ipv6 local address
  • BZ - 2066860 - Wrong spec in NFD documentation under `operand`
  • BZ - 2066887 - Dependabot alert: Path traversal in github.com/valyala/fasthttp
  • BZ - 2066889 - Dependabot alert: Path traversal in github.com/valyala/fasthttp
  • BZ - 2067312 - PPT event source is lost when received by the consumer
  • BZ - 2077243 - NFD os release label lost after upgrade to ocp 4.10.6
  • BZ - 2087511 - NFD SkipRange is wrong causing OLM install problems
  • BZ - 2089962 - Node feature Discovery operator installation failed.
  • BZ - 2090774 - Add Readme to plugin directory
  • BZ - 2091106 - Dependabot alert: Unhandled exception in gopkg.in/yaml.v3
  • BZ - 2091142 - Dependabot alert: Unhandled exception in gopkg.in/yaml.v3
  • BZ - 2100495 - CVE-2021-38561 golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS

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