RHSA-2023:7827 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.13.27 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 4.13.

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 4.13.27. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:7829

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/4.13/release_notes/ocp-4-13-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)

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 4.13 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/4.13/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 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/4.13/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 sha256:7dcc3367f535

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:b5bc84a1a7d0

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:cdd2cea8e6ad

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5fdca671fcdc

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 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 Console
or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available
at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 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-22241 - Console login flow forgot query parameters / Deeplinking doesn't work
• OCPBUGS-23014 - High memory usage on one of the ovnkube-master pods on some clusters
• OCPBUGS-23468 - Backport vendor runtime-utils to support both ICSP and IDMS objects
• OCPBUGS-23521 - Backport removing ICSP IDMS coexistence restrictions from admission
• OCPBUGS-24277 - Machine API Operator vSphere controller references retired KCS for HW Version Migrations
• OCPBUGS-24461 - oc process command fails while running it with a template file
• OCPBUGS-24591 - Metrics: ConsolePlugins must no longer needs to be grouped
• OCPBUGS-25146 - [release-4.13] User can impersonate to all the user without the appropriate rolebinding

CVEs

• CVE-2023-39325

References

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