RHSA-2024:0204 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.14.9 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 4.14.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0207

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/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• opentelemetry: DoS vulnerability in otelhttp (CVE-2023-45142)
• opentelemetry-go-contrib: DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc due to unbound cardinality metrics (CVE-2023-47108)

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 4.14 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/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 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/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-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:f5eaf0248779a0478cfd83f055d56dc7d755937800a68ad55f6047c503977c44

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f4c1e8cae3c214140146c34d49830f9765f42e7d2b31251970fd26dc8652d4fb

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:aaa152edd2e5c5b4f1d7725024b710c596eafd28907a645817e62a629503388b

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5077e66818151136b10f92f81b88183f5ccb69d837847d2f5b3a2020a96fd873

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 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/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2245180 - CVE-2023-45142 opentelemetry: DoS vulnerability in otelhttp
• BZ - 2251198 - CVE-2023-47108 opentelemetry-go-contrib: DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc due to unbound cardinality metrics
• OCPBUGS-19431 - The termination.log file for the kube-apiserver should have consistent permission
• OCPBUGS-22360 - tokenConfig's accessTokenInactivityTimeout in hosted cluster is not consistent with management cluster
• OCPBUGS-22788 - [release-4.14] Remove 90s readiness probe initial delay for OVN-IC
• OCPBUGS-22895 - ARO builds should not generate azure-cloud-provider credentials in Manual mode
• OCPBUGS-23936 - CCM uses MC's KAS instead of HC's KAS
• OCPBUGS-24037 - [4.14] CNO fails to apply ovnkube-master daemonset during upgrade
• OCPBUGS-24640 - [release-4.14] ODF Dynamic plugin should not expose Server header
• OCPBUGS-25595 - Make MC names deterministic
• OCPBUGS-25804 - Sync stable branch for CPO release-1.27 into release-4.14
• OCPBUGS-25997 - [release-4.14] When a receiver is created for alert notification through web console uses match instead of matchers
• OCPBUGS-26006 - Bump to kubernetes 1.27.9
• OCPBUGS-26044 - Adding test case when exceed openshift.io/image-tags will ban to create new image references in the project
• OCPBUGS-26065 - oc-mirror failed with a ImageSetConfiguration yaml containing two EUS channels
• OCPBUGS-26171 - [release-4.14] YAML editor shows different style in console for configmaps with data exceeding 78 Characters
• OCPBUGS-26207 - CVO should continue to periodically fetch upstream Cincinnati despite Recommended=Unknown risks
• OCPBUGS-26214 - [4.14] cluster-backup failed in upgrade from 4.14.7 to 4.15.0-rc.0
• OCPBUGS-26421 - [4.14.z] User workload Monitoring - Scrape failed, the metric does not support exemplars

CVEs

• CVE-2023-5388
• CVE-2023-6476
• CVE-2023-45142
• CVE-2023-47108

References

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