RHSA-2024:10823 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.26 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 4.16.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:10826

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/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file

(CVE-2024-6104)

• cross-spawn: regular expression denial of service (CVE-2024-21538)

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 4.16 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/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-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 sha256:7ecc9d14151c7d16a04aec8103ba6c32fd424898e45b7a09e9bc861ccf895eab

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:1d3e9211862c50a10eca9b4e892b2acceef271c52407e57642378095f9732335

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:af2ec5ac93e6b43b4a85a7c9061b5281da597efca15056cce267883300b66fba

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e2b8441b9931f8fe4964d1759497c3b3af5228120bb54ed3ff82b6a6c9b89143

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

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 - 2294000 - CVE-2024-6104 go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file
• BZ - 2324550 - CVE-2024-21538 cross-spawn: regular expression denial of service
• OCPBUGS-39372 - NodePool Controller doesn't respect LatestSupportedVersion const
• OCPBUGS-44456 - Sync stable branch for cluster-api-provider-openstack release-0.10 into release-4.16
• OCPBUGS-44792 - Collapse/Expand Feature Added, Removal Option Removed in Version 4.16
• OCPBUGS-44874 - Telemetry userPreference results in empty nodes output to the DOM
• OCPBUGS-44875 - Start last run do not work in buildConfig details page
• OCPBUGS-44895 - Delay in provisioning master node
• OCPBUGS-45015 - [release-4.16] Remove ClusterTask dependency in console from Pipelines 1.17
• OCPBUGS-45124 - [regression] Impossible to pass multiline parameters to templates
• OCPBUGS-45181 - Ability to sync OS time from NTP and update HW clock at the time of installation of OpenShift in ABI

CVEs

• CVE-2024-6104
• CVE-2024-21538

References

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