RHSA-2024:10818 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.8 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 4.17.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:10821

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/4.17/release_notes/ocp-4-17-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host (CVE-2024-5154)
• openssl: Possible denial of service in X.509 name checks (CVE-2024-6119)
• Podman: Buildah: cri-o: FIPS Crypto-Policy Directory Mounting Issue in

containers/common Go Library (CVE-2024-9341)

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 4.17 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/4.17/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/release_notes/ocp-4-17-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 as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:bb75823f8bdf4a535b010d5727d16e05d0a030c145524e4cfb3fe05cafc7fc23

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:4ea66325b60126f0f50e0890306f7af68509a6df446a0cde980d38acccf298be

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:fadda9d582faf47a7d89b5bdd1110a9e65a3d40922f1c3c75f0bfa782ce11701

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:ee79aa53276a1d92b9c0bf7e18d5fbe5af93f0f4d762f3ddd4edb50502c1d4b4

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2280190 - CVE-2024-5154 cri-o: malicious container can create symlink on host
• BZ - 2306158 - CVE-2024-6119 openssl: Possible denial of service in X.509 name checks
• BZ - 2315691 - CVE-2024-9341 Podman: Buildah: cri-o: FIPS Crypto-Policy Directory Mounting Issue in containers/common Go Library
• OCPBUGS-39223 - on-prem-resolv-prepender.path should be disabled in UPI
• OCPBUGS-42791 - Cluster monitoring reports OpenShift Pipelines plugin as unknown
• OCPBUGS-43441 - Developer Console Dashboards Page Deduplicates Data
• OCPBUGS-43888 - While accessing the node terminal from UI observed 'Warning alert:Admission Webhook Warning`
• OCPBUGS-44169 - use TaskRuns `results.tekton.dev/record` annotation to get the logs
• OCPBUGS-44247 - Update 4.17 CAPI ibmcloud to 9b077049
• OCPBUGS-44455 - Sync stable branch for cluster-api-provider-openstack release-0.10 into release-4.17
• OCPBUGS-44508 - oc adm node-image create does not show node-joiner container logs when there is an error
• OCPBUGS-44873 - Unable to remove finally tasks in pipeline builder mode
• OCPBUGS-44880 - Pending CSR in Hypershift PowerVS cluster

CVEs

• CVE-2024-5154
• CVE-2024-6119
• CVE-2024-9341

References

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