RHSA-2024:4955 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.25 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 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 4.15.25. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4958

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):

• ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP)

(CVE-2023-48795)

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

handling affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (CVE-2024-6409)

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 sha256:81874cf1470a55c07baa9ffa0722efd3819c8ed54c15244713d3c20b231eb516

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:8ce860bf1a7abb3ac033daa8e0e29b147b694fadf04ad7fcc6476aa66f40fb48

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:294a17de9476ae1d89f0258f196c8825b3b122010ac89846e1e3d8085352b42b

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:8800b38e920e726cecf55edce79e8c94d310d6a96058a34cd4dd666119e74397

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

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 - 2254210 - CVE-2023-48795 ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP)
• BZ - 2295085 - CVE-2024-6409 openssh: Possible remote code execution due to a race condition in signal handling affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• OCPBUGS-35837 - multus-admission-controller does not preserve modified resource requests/limits
• OCPBUGS-36278 - [4.15] haproxy crashlooping fresh install Openshift 4.14.10
• OCPBUGS-36563 - PrometheusOperatorRejectedResources should link its runbook
• OCPBUGS-36821 - e2e-gcp-operator loadbalancer service not going ready CI flakes
• OCPBUGS-36885 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces ( operator-framework-catalogd)
• OCPBUGS-37061 - Update to azidentity v1.7.0 [4.15]
• OCPBUGS-37196 - [4.15] ovs-vswitchd is using isolated cpu pool instead of reserved pool
• OCPBUGS-37198 - Very high ts2phc offsets reported in linuxptp log while metrics show ts2phc clock_state is locked and GM clock_state is FREERUN
• OCPBUGS-37205 - CNO must consider infra and workload machine config pools for IPsec rollout
• OCPBUGS-37306 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (cluster-node-tuning-operator)
• OCPBUGS-37419 - Resolve snyk issue: k8s.io/client-go/transport [4.15]
• OCPBUGS-37458 - [release-4.15] one OAuth.config.openshift.io item on Global Configuration page links to non-existing resource
• OCPBUGS-37524 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (openshift-marketplace)
• OCPBUGS-37549 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (openshift-operator-controller)
• OCPBUGS-37554 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (openshift-operator-lifecycle-manager)
• OCPBUGS-37629 - Openshift uncordoned compute-node that was intentionally cordoned
• OCPBUGS-37677 - [release-4.15] Mark e2e flaky tests as flaky
• OCPBUGS-37695 - Cannot reach to kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local from workers of Hosted Cluster

CVEs

• CVE-2023-48795
• CVE-2024-6409

References

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