RHSA-2024:0766 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.0 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 4.15.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Critical. 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.

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)

• ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP)

(CVE-2023-48795)

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

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.

Solution

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/4.15/release_notes/ocp-4-15-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.15 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.15 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.15 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.15 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.15 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.15 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)
• 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
• BZ - 2254210 - CVE-2023-48795 ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP)

CVEs

• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-45142
• CVE-2023-47108
• CVE-2023-48795

References

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