RHSA-2024:3494 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.13.43 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 4.13.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3496

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/4.13/release_notes/ocp-4-13-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK

decoding (CVE-2022-41723)

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 4.13 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/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 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/4.13/release_notes/ocp-4-13-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:d0da3d9b016e6d693a61c9425598921b6d0da99c52cb0f3404f6dbc126149e5d

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f6568685632f8246258dd89e202938bc92841e78d4d014b1dbb74cfa23cdd42a

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:1fc2db32bf33d582602c81c349f22c5080c785f0230f9e6a2ede9e32928d7dd6

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f9f4638671fd0de844668577c91782c186acbd7a11a3192033801bb422ae40cf

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 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/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2178358 - CVE-2022-41723 net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding
• OCPBUGS-32920 - Revert OCPBUGS-31653
• OCPBUGS-33421 - ovnkube-controller bug: ovn service lb still has the endpoint when pod is in terminating state
• OCPBUGS-33468 - [4.13] vsphere-problem-detector-operator does not respect cluster wide proxy
• OCPBUGS-33650 - [release-4.13] Unable to remove the AlternateBackends from the routes using the web console
• OCPBUGS-33730 - [4.13z] slow ovnkube-node initialization on large number of services with externalIps
• OCPBUGS-33732 - [vsphere] IPI destroy cluster failed to delete TagCategory
• OCPBUGS-33749 - Topology links between VMs and non VMs (such as Pod or Deployment) don't show
• OCPBUGS-33759 - Prefixes are not sent for IPV6 BGP Peer
• OCPBUGS-34062 - [4.13] common users are unable to create ephemeral/CSI volumes in upgraded clusters
• OCPBUGS-34476 - [Backport 4.13] TestMTLSWithCRLs and TestCRLUpdate failing due to removed container image

CVEs

• CVE-2021-47013
• CVE-2022-41723
• CVE-2023-3006
• CVE-2023-52578
• CVE-2024-25062

References

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