RHSA-2024:4699 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.23 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 4.15.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4702

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/4.15/release_notes/ocp-4-15-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames

causes DoS (CVE-2023-45288)

• golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA

payloads (CVE-2024-1394)

• dnspython: denial of service in stub resolver (CVE-2023-29483)
• 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 4.15 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/4.15/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 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/4.15/release_notes/ocp-4-15-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:e39f4b55929f54a720ca84075544920ddc9fcc1e6a627005ebfd4c3b64e5716c

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f71ac459550d87ea330ad86155c0c03856691cca3704ed833b715daba03e9e6f

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:1cda629199a1a845e6f8419551b5f818311a5592b4cb19b563db6d4b7f349602

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:6338d2c24bb593f02980f8627b5a154cbef20a45d541f7c697666c5ac880a02e

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 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/4.15/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.15 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.15 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.15 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.15 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.15 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.15 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2262921 - CVE-2024-1394 golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads
• BZ - 2268273 - CVE-2023-45288 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS
• BZ - 2274520 - CVE-2023-29483 dnspython: denial of service in stub resolver
• BZ - 2294000 - CVE-2024-6104 go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file
• OCPBUGS-34809 - Network node identity uses unescaped IPv6 addresses in the ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
• OCPBUGS-36842 - PTP operator showing high cpu utilization with steady workload on OCP 4.15
• OCPBUGS-37067 - [4.15] Bootimage bump tracker
• OCPBUGS-37266 - hypershift ignition server uses RHEL major version mismatched MCO binaries
• OCPBUGS-30139 - Node fails to join cluster as CSR contains wrong hostname in dualstack setup
• OCPBUGS-34477 - Import from Git allow users to import an app with Build option Pipeline also when no Pipeline is available
• OCPBUGS-35756 - [release-4.15] Dynamic update of leap file path in linuxptp daemon
• OCPBUGS-35758 - [release-4.15] Dynamic update of leap file path in ptp operator
• OCPBUGS-35888 - GNSS EVENT state is not following O-Ran spec defined values
• OCPBUGS-36208 - [release-4.15] Allow configuring router default connect timeout on an ingress controller
• OCPBUGS-36329 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (oc node debug pods)
• OCPBUGS-36451 - [4.15] Can't install operator on 4.15 after uninstalling it on a prior version
• OCPBUGS-36466 - [Backport 4.15] OCP upgrade from 4.13 to 4.14 triggers the error "failed to update canary route openshift-ingress-canary/canary"
• OCPBUGS-36606 - HCP missing audit log configuration for oauth-openshift (OAuth server)
• OCPBUGS-36702 - Backport owners file for network-metrics-daemon
• OCPBUGS-36813 - [4.15] The certificate relating to operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver isn't rotated after expired
• OCPBUGS-36863 - Hosted Control Plane deployment fails as ignition server fails to provide ignition payload.
• OCPBUGS-36971 - [release-4.15] Operand details page shows incorrect API version

CVEs

• CVE-2023-29483
• CVE-2023-45288
• CVE-2024-1394
• CVE-2024-5564
• CVE-2024-6104

References

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