RHSA-2023:3410 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.20 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 4.12.

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.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.20. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3409

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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)

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 4.12 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/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests may 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 sha256:5c504578e34e8cf6eb70fad7a9bee92896b6d38d09b6d81891f730ee4f9d268b

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f39a74c577e6a44e6ca8f8c85f68f51ecfae696d8a98b420ffb3422f33d82033

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5deb523d09debbcec778e2afb432162c12edbc26ea28ab124b3d2c70179af3fe

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:716d3ff360306bff452cdf9aecb1499df48f188454a9d246d8ecdfe2d3e28fae

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2196027 - CVE-2023-24540 golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace
• OCPBUGS-10812 - Missing vCenter build number in telemetry
• OCPBUGS-11989 - "Create" button inactive when creating application with "Import from Git" workflow
• OCPBUGS-12202 - fail to create vSphere IPI cluster as apiVIP and ingressVIP are not in machine networks
• OCPBUGS-13173 - Bump to kubernetes 1.25.10
• OCPBUGS-13335 - [4.12] IPI redfish installation fails on inspect for EthernetInterfaces
• OCPBUGS-13432 - Got the `file exists` error when different digest direct to the same tag
• OCPBUGS-13647 - Wrong cleanup of stale conditions from OCPBUGS-2783
• OCPBUGS-13721 - aws-ebs-csi-driver-controller-sa ServiceAccount does not include the HCP pull-secret in its imagePullSecrets
• OCPBUGS-13819 - Bootstrap on aws should have same metadata service type as on other nodes
• OCPBUGS-13862 - Could not upgrade 4.12.16 SNO to 4.13.0-rc.7 because "operator cloud-controller-manager should not be upgraded between minor versions"
• OCPBUGS-13889 - unusual error log in cluster-policy-controller
• OCPBUGS-13943 - CPMS?create two replace machines when deleting a master machine on vSphere
• OCPBUGS-14014 - When releaseImage is a digest the create image command generates spurious warning
• OCPBUGS-14120 - Replacing master node on GCP IPI don't include new machine into the instance-group used for api-int lb
• OCPBUGS-14152 - e2e-agnostic-ovn-cmd is permanently failing due to registry.centos.org
• OCPBUGS-14236 - TestNewApp unit tests in oc are failing
• OCPBUGS-14299 - [4.12] Fast track BZ#2196441 (Network Manager)
• OCPBUGS-6061 - update sprig to v3 in cno
• OCPBUGS-7551 - When installing OCP on vsphere/nutanix failure with bootstrap destroy

CVEs

• CVE-2023-24540
• CVE-2023-25652
• CVE-2023-25815
• CVE-2023-29007

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html