RHSA-2024:10149 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat build of MicroShift release 4.16.24 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

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 build of MicroShift is Red Hat's light-weight Kubernetes orchestration solution designed for edge device deployments and is built from the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. MicroShift is an application that is deployed on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux devices at the edge, providing an efficient way to operate single-node clusters in these low-resource environments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.16.24. Read the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10147

All Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.16 users are advised to use these updated packages and images when they are available in the RPM repository.

Security Fix(es):

• runc: file descriptor leak (CVE-2024-21626)

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

For MicroShift 4.16, read the following documentation, which will be updated soon after this release, for important instructions on how to install the latest RPMs and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_build_of_microshift/4.16/html/release_notes/index

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.16 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.16 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.16 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2258725 - CVE-2024-21626 runc: file descriptor leak

CVEs

• CVE-2024-21626

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2024-001