RHSA-2024:4469 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.3 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 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 4.16.3. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:4472

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):

• openssh: Possible remote code execution due to a race condition in signal

handling (CVE-2024-6387)

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

(CVE-2024-6104)

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 sha256:3ec3a43ded1decc18134e5677f56037d8929f4442930f5d1156e7a77cdf1b9b3

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:9b9bebfa88de4b930fdc0bbbe1b30baf35e6d732bd273977c6c46ac825ddc629

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:61d47638d63f8ba8bca42b12dfafb7bd8aa9fcb2d7e39d0ccf87f5e571a560db

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:c33c0068a3cec747bcbac401a5fbcd6c9611f34e624b640da4378d40d8a48a89

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

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

• OCPBUGS-33788 - [release-4.16] Console operator goes degraded on HyperShift HCP clusters with the ingress capability disabled
• OCPBUGS-34979 - [release-4.16] OLM - Set default CatalogSource pod SecurityContext as `restricted`
• OCPBUGS-35298 - Storage degraded by VSphereProblemDetectorStarterStaticControllerDegraded during uprading to 4.16.0-0.nightly
• OCPBUGS-35730 - CSI pods are not restarted when changing enable_topology value
• OCPBUGS-35831 - [release-4.16] Misleading alert regarding high control plane CPU utilization in Single Node OpenShift (SNO) cluster
• OCPBUGS-36137 - Catalog operator pod crashed during SNO cluster installation
• OCPBUGS-36182 - 4.14: Build Tests Reference EOL Ruby Image
• OCPBUGS-36324 - [4.16] Bootimage bump tracker
• OCPBUGS-36328 - [4.16.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (oc node debug pods)
• OCPBUGS-36330 - Machine stuck in Provisioned when the cluster is upgraded from 4.1 to 4.15
• OCPBUGS-36341 - Backport owners file for multus admission controller
• OCPBUGS-36358 - HCP missing audit log configuration for oauth-openshift (OAuth server)
• OCPBUGS-36386 - [oc-mirror][v2]DiskToMirror should not require internet access
• OCPBUGS-36435 - [4.16] IBU x->y->z with no rhcos delta results in ostree corruption
• OCPBUGS-36447 - OpenShift Installer on AWS: EKS CAPA is enabled by default
• OCPBUGS-36482 - PrometheusOperatorRejectedResources should link its runbook
• OCPBUGS-36486 - Pod stuck in creating state
• OCPBUGS-36536 - Disconnected ARO clusters fail to add new nodes after upgrading to 4.14
• OCPBUGS-36607 - [aws] remove terraform configs
• OCPBUGS-36701 - Backport owners file for network-metrics-daemon
• OCPBUGS-36717 - alert for metrics endpoint at port 9537 shows connection refused for windows nodes
• OCPBUGS-36746 - 4.14 PowerVS CI jobs are failing with error-" yq-v4: not found"

CVEs

• CVE-2023-31486
• CVE-2023-45229
• CVE-2023-45231
• CVE-2023-45235
• CVE-2023-45236
• CVE-2023-45237
• CVE-2024-3652
• CVE-2024-4418
• CVE-2024-6104
• CVE-2024-6387
• CVE-2024-32002
• CVE-2024-32004
• CVE-2024-32020
• CVE-2024-32021
• CVE-2024-32465

References

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