RHSA-2023:4310 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.46 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 container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.46. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4312

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):

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

(CVE-2021-38561)

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 sha256:88583eeaddcda4fbfdcf21f4dad86b01ff09bb010357c51f08fb24eb07fdb602

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:9626db69fc59699669497c95e67d8d3ae66d2374d9949ca7031bb25fa9ac188c

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:10b9e45b7bd97eca6f4ae7b0ed3deac843d6c1474152a40206be851363eb56e8

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:37433b71c073c6cbfc8173ec7ab2d99032c8e6d6fe29de06e062d85e33e34531

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 - 2100495 - CVE-2021-38561 golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS
• OCPBUGS-15506 - [release-4.11] gather podDisruptionBudget only from openshift namespaces
• OCPBUGS-15539 - IngressVIP getting attach to two nodes at once
• OCPBUGS-15876 - 4.11 ovn-k unit tests failing
• OCPBUGS-16037 - TuneD reverts node level profiles on termination
• OCPBUGS-16126 - Redhat-operators are failing regularly due to startup probe timing out which in turn increases CPU/Mem usage on Master nodes
• OCPBUGS-16152 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.11.0 extras release
• OCPBUGS-5708 - Bootstraps' pivot service races with bootkube

CVEs

• CVE-2021-38561
• CVE-2022-4304
• CVE-2023-0215
• CVE-2023-0286
• CVE-2023-2828
• CVE-2023-24329

References

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