RHSA-2023:5677 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.39 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 4.12.39. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5679

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: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)

A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about this flaw is available 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 4.12 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 sha256:75687feb6344caeb0edb6b1513b53fd07b90b481079415b6545d860fe74059eb

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:afe5528a62115908f293e0f6030483624c79efd3fcc6f9705b734a7fb3ef7576

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:3b0611f03d5561f179e58080a80bd7db53965794ca597a12e55d83c59833a683

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:72008386ad6a2ac1ceb59b86116ea23d98e7be8685698e9375b9370d9adfb770

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 - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
• OCPBUGS-13580 - OCPBUGS-13580: [release4.12]-Regression: OpenShift Console no-longer filters SecretList when displaying ServiceAccount
• OCPBUGS-15474 - [release-4.12] Enable/Disable plugin options are not shown on Operator details page
• OCPBUGS-18288 - Bump to kubernetes 1.25.14
• OCPBUGS-18838 - Backport liveness probe to 4.12
• OCPBUGS-19089 - [4.12] High OVS CPU usage with ECMP gateway ingress traffic
• OCPBUGS-19483 - CNV regression with recent Kubernetes rebase - device plugin
• OCPBUGS-19779 - machine-config-operator does not honor ICSP when fetching machine-os-content
• OCPBUGS-19904 - [4.12] Egress appears to be splitting traffic between all applicable egress IPs instead of selecting a primary host address
• OCPBUGS-19906 - [4.12] LB skip_snat improperly applied with affinity_timeout
• OCPBUGS-19933 - cluster-dns-operator corrupts /etc/hosts when fs full
• OCPBUGS-20144 - CoreDNS panics if an EndpointSlice object contains a port without a port number
• OCPBUGS-20223 - cluster-node-tuning-operator in CrashLoopBackOff on CU cluster
• OCPBUGS-18490 - CI fails on "[sig-arch][Late] operators should not create watch channels very often"
• OCPBUGS-20124 - Pagination issue causes delays on attaching cinder volumes
• OCPBUGS-20253 - linuxptp-daemon-container log flooded with 'uds port: management forward failed' entries
• OCPBUGS-20299 - unit test job failure rates are high in oc
• OCPBUGS-20509 - MCO keeps attempting to pull baremetalRuntimeCfg image again and again
• OCPBUGS-20573 - Update DOWNSTREAM_OWNERS in cloud-provider-openstack

CVEs

• CVE-2022-48303
• CVE-2023-2177
• CVE-2023-3341
• CVE-2023-3609
• CVE-2023-3776
• CVE-2023-4527
• CVE-2023-4806
• CVE-2023-4813
• CVE-2023-4911
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-40217
• CVE-2023-44487

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003