RHSA-2024:6409 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.31 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 4.15.31. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:6414

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)

• opentelemetry-go-contrib: DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc due to unbound

cardinality metrics (CVE-2023-47108)

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

(CVE-2024-6104)

• golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite

loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON
(CVE-2024-24786)

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:c03bbdd63fa8832266a2cf0d9fbcd2867692d9ba7e09d31bc77d15dd9903e36f

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:638ce196a84d0a8a7d3beda6b9d688f02f9fb793595727bcc651e2d9083438b8

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:1e2744cbf6df478f4c5f9614d9e2f3640fd0ab643437b7a245f282635488ab1e

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:a9788e396cc0df08dd23116e7fae4ef8b93b98a67ab663daaf81b95c28a1bdc8

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 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 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 - 2251198 - CVE-2023-47108 opentelemetry-go-contrib: DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc due to unbound cardinality metrics
• BZ - 2268046 - CVE-2024-24786 golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON
• BZ - 2294000 - CVE-2024-6104 go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file
• OCPBUGS-31467 - az.EnsureHostInPool panic when Azure VM instance not found
• OCPBUGS-33938 - [cee.Next]Adding same value to the Vmware plugin on OCP console should not lead to nodes reboot
• OCPBUGS-34842 - Suggest adding a restart of openvswitch service after updating the openvswitch package during RHEL node upgrade
• OCPBUGS-37049 - NNCP bridge STP unchecked but stp enabled on node
• OCPBUGS-37408 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (openshift-console-operator)
• OCPBUGS-38377 - snyk: google.golang.org/grpc/metadata [4.15]
• OCPBUGS-38400 - Cannot use new proxy settings in Alertmanager configuration
• OCPBUGS-38712 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (openshift-*-infra)
• OCPBUGS-38895 - Image registry unable to run due to permissions error
• OCPBUGS-38939 - [4.15] Ironic issues soft power_off command during installation via ACM, preventing fakefish from working on certain configurations
• OCPBUGS-38943 - hypershift periodic conformance are failing due to coreos changes
• OCPBUGS-39077 - Update KCM node-monitor-grace-period to upstream default value to prevent nodes going "NotReady" for a few seconds
• OCPBUGS-39085 - The Utilization of CPU and memory looks not correct on node overview page
• OCPBUGS-39112 - [CI-Watcher] knative integration tests failing
• OCPBUGS-39172 - noProxy URL not available in Prometheus k8s CR after configuring remote-write
• OCPBUGS-39463 - [OCP 4.15] "error getting ignition payload: failed to download binaries"

CVEs

• CVE-2023-47108
• CVE-2024-6104
• CVE-2024-24786
• CVE-2024-34064
• CVE-2024-37891

References

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