RHSA-2024:6013 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.30 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 4.15.30. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6016

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):

• bind: bind9: BIND's database will be slow if a very large number of RRs

exist at the same nam (CVE-2024-1737)

• bind9: bind: SIG(0) can be used to exhaust CPU resources (CVE-2024-1975)
• bind: bind9: Assertion failure when serving both stale cache data and

authoritative zone content (CVE-2024-4076)

• helm: Missing YAML Content Leads To Panic (CVE-2024-26147)

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 sha256:29d88fadd452261fc8a0bbbb5d920a7fe5b8b7a0050f673a7c47059f03daef28

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:59557a8caba9c7f7e1fe4b39545d1aa33d12ed9e6b4ff1f118b0ae16087ac577

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:890a9bc6f7f9c65e6d98d677085228b462a00c096afd08082f4a7f56441679bc

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:7dd6c863983390d4a975c7a01ce12eabbe1bed9fee07d36faa000e98f3cc9e73

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 - 2265440 - CVE-2024-26147 helm: Missing YAML Content Leads To Panic
• BZ - 2298893 - CVE-2024-1737 bind: bind9: BIND's database will be slow if a very large number of RRs exist at the same nam
• BZ - 2298901 - CVE-2024-1975 bind9: bind: SIG(0) can be used to exhaust CPU resources
• BZ - 2298904 - CVE-2024-4076 bind: bind9: Assertion failure when serving both stale cache data and authoritative zone content
• OCPBUGS-33076 - OpenShift Pipelines: Error during adding parameters to Pipeline
• OCPBUGS-36719 - [release-4.15] ServiceMonitor proxyUrl validation missing which breaks reload and restart of Prometheus
• OCPBUGS-37452 - PAC: PLRs log link is broken
• OCPBUGS-38023 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (openshift-manila-csi-driver)
• OCPBUGS-38198 - Installer support for GCP deployments using short-lived credential formats
• OCPBUGS-38262 - [4.15] While upgrading from 4.12.55 to 4.13.42, the network operator goes in a degraded state due to the ovnkube-master pods ending up in a crashloopbackoff.
• OCPBUGS-38561 - discoverOpenIDURLs and checkOIDCPasswordGrantFlow fail if endpoints are private to the data plane
• OCPBUGS-38613 - [HCP] APIServer CR is not synced to the hosted cluster
• OCPBUGS-38787 - [4.15] Get hypershift-kubevirt conformance tests on Azure pass
• OCPBUGS-38861 - Kubelet will not output logs after log file is rotated
• OCPBUGS-39041 - HCP CCMs attempt direct internet access with proxied management cluster
• OCPBUGS-39080 - Centos8 is EOL Update to 9

CVEs

• CVE-2024-1737
• CVE-2024-1975
• CVE-2024-4076
• CVE-2024-26147
• CVE-2024-38476

References

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