RHSA-2023:0561 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.10.51 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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):

• goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be (CVE-2021-4238)

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.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 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/4.10/release_notes/ocp-4-10-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:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:d23a3b88ece36f741923552904b730c5452db698c7678cf65181fefb62ea5e2f

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e27b9ca8076cc084528319a8dbf567841c7a970da95cf03bce4b724d58b70e52

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:fdbd611813766c4f5c2830610ba18c1ea40680db6ba30ce930aeccc9d7692376

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:fe5f112762feb15fcd6d9aec3de12a071bff114f18f15e5fd470a1ea64b0f8c7

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 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/4.10/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.10 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.10 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.10 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2092501 - [4.10z] OCP 4.10 nightly build will fail to install if multiple NICs are defined on KVM nodes
• BZ - 2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
• OCPBUGS-1525 - package-server-manager does not migrate packageserver CSV from v0.17.0 to v0.18.3 on OCP 4.8 -> 4.9 upgrade
• OCPBUGS-1987 - Insight Operator keeps rebooting on Openshift 4.10.18 in disconnected environment
• OCPBUGS-5345 - WriteRequestBodies audit profile records routes/status events at RequestResponse level
• OCPBUGS-5831 - Empty/missing node-sizing SYSTEM_RESERVED_ES parameter can result in kubelet not starting
• OCPBUGS-5895 - [vsphere-csi-driver-operator] CSI cloud.conf doesn't list multiple datacenters when specified
• OCPBUGS-5929 - [4.10] nodeport not reachable port connection timeout
• OCPBUGS-5950 - wal: max entry size limit exceeded
• OCPBUGS-5990 - [4.10] unit test data race with egress ip tests
• OCPBUGS-6091 - MetalLB tries to process a service with loadbalancer class set
• OCPBUGS-6645 - [release-4.10] openshift4/ose-jenkins:v4.10.0 run script throws too many arguments error
• OCPBUGS-6736 - [2072601] ovn-nbctl.log is never rotated

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4238

References

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