RHSA-2023:3309 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.42 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 [impact]. 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 4.11.42. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:3308

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/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• dns: Denial of Service (DoS) (CVE-2018-17419)

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 CLI (oc) or web console. 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

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 sha256:518177a34452837920f1e77944f6afa08864537260c9f742b8c88b6157e4f901

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:c8f1891f3d4a93104a209b96987e07e2077b685238a246da12a656bf69be88c3

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:19ad52422acbd24dde71ae5089471c541004e1c0bf4e13e081e5b65220600c15

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:d87fcd39ad6fad29454ff9137ce521d7049cda2b391ccbdd34554427d60bd27b

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 CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster 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 - 2188523 - CVE-2018-17419 dns: Denial of Service (DoS)
• OCPBUGS-10276 - [4.11] Lazily unmount /proc/cmdline
• OCPBUGS-12231 - Pipeline Repository (Pipeline-as-Code) list page shows an empty Event type column
• OCPBUGS-12254 - MetalLB operator 4.11 update fails with addressPool apiVersion conversion
• OCPBUGS-12263 - opm fails to serve FBC if cachedir not provided
• OCPBUGS-12279 - Developer catalog shows ImageStreams as samples which has no sampleRepo
• OCPBUGS-12284 - 'gitlab.secretReference' disappears when the buildconfig is edited on ?From View?
• OCPBUGS-12959 - update the default pipelineRun template name
• OCPBUGS-13730 - Show type of sample on the samples view
• OCPBUGS-13746 - PipelineRun templates must be fetched from OpenShift namespace
• OCPBUGS-13792 - Failed to create STS resources on AWS GovCloud regions using ccoctl
• OCPBUGS-13822 - Yum Config Manager Not Found
• OCPBUGS-13864 - Pipeline is not removed when Deployment/DC/Knative Service or Application is deleted

CVEs

• CVE-2018-17419
• CVE-2022-25147
• CVE-2023-25652
• CVE-2023-25815
• CVE-2023-28617
• CVE-2023-29007

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html