RHSA-2024:4965 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.6 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 4.16.6. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:4968

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)

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 sha256:24ea553ce2e79fab0ff9cf2917d26433cffb3da954583921926034b9d5d309bd

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:d70b05b4fb4433c2e4e32f7d54a325124465fdcbd637996a79a4aec038ebb79f

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:3613a013b35613dce5b63c82d74711037d68a31df95cfc8899d7aca3ba048824

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:69384bf4d8aa5f7acfefe742c8a2cd7eb6c8927400158f0d4174fcf757fb602e

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

• BZ - 2294000 - CVE-2024-6104 go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file
• OCPBUGS-22995 - Rule ocp4-cis-file-permissions-cni-conf returned a false negative result
• OCPBUGS-35891 - No ability to debug node-ip detection logic
• OCPBUGS-36285 - metal3 reads secrets from environment variables, which is not CIS Compliant
• OCPBUGS-36489 - [4.16] Should run health checks in parallel to avoid spurious Available=False EtcdMembers_NoQuorum claims
• OCPBUGS-36608 - [4.16] ovs-vswitchd is using isolated cpu pool instead of reserved pool
• OCPBUGS-36864 - [release-4.16] RHOCP Web Console - One inactive/idle tab causes session expiry for all other tabs.
• OCPBUGS-36968 - [aws capi] unnecessary revoke-authorize ingress rules loop
• OCPBUGS-37080 - [release-4.16] Use a specific branch/tag for the cloned coredns for build in openshift/coredns-ocp-dnsnameresolver
• OCPBUGS-37213 - [ptp leap file] ublox CFG-MSG invalid rate: byte must be in range(0, 256)
• OCPBUGS-37214 - Multiple KMS encryption providers specified in single element for IBM Cloud
• OCPBUGS-37228 - [release-4.16 ]periodical check for SCA and cluster transfer doesn't work correctly due to informer resync
• OCPBUGS-37362 - Incorrect OVN-K alerts pre & post IC (was: There is no runbook url for alert OVNKubernetesNorthdInactive)
• OCPBUGS-37418 - Resolve snyk issue: k8s.io/client-go/transport [4.16]
• OCPBUGS-37428 - Machine-config operator should not hot loop generating ValidatingAdmissionPolicyUpdated events
• OCPBUGS-37445 - [v2] proxy configuration not respected when mirroring releases
• OCPBUGS-37460 - Openshift uncordoned compute-node that was intentionally cordoned
• OCPBUGS-37470 - Nodes are drained twice when an OCB image is applied
• OCPBUGS-37510 - Subnets created by the installer are tagged as shared
• OCPBUGS-37559 - [release-4.16] Mark e2e flaky tests as flaky
• OCPBUGS-37645 - Cannot reach to kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local from workers of Hosted Cluster
• OCPBUGS-37671 - [release4.16] Ingress controller related certificates' validate dates gathering

CVEs

• CVE-2023-45288
• CVE-2024-6104
• CVE-2024-37298
• CVE-2024-38474
• CVE-2024-38475
• CVE-2024-38477

References

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