RHSA-2023:1525 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.9.59 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 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 4.9.59. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1524

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/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated (CVE-2021-20329)

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.

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 4.9 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/4.9/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

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/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html

You can download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch 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:b22d8c20d3f7fc0afb8654f5df4cfafa8230ad6fe58c0c48760c3f42a3aae5fd

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:8f0821c7da21b63df30f99572621700c4a2bfb1cf7570761f03c4fecfacbe548

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:2629197b0a278178d0350a6fac60ce5f2ff9047a6bef6f6933d375a029f6ccb1

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5d043b2f061c4b0909b87b0c3ba8995fa2e20cda290a807b0a30722a0e8b4ce7

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 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/4.9/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.9 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.9 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1971033 - CVE-2021-20329 mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated
• OCPBUGS-7081 - Bump to kubernetes 1.22.17

CVEs

• CVE-2021-20329
• CVE-2022-42889
• CVE-2023-0286
• CVE-2023-0767

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html