RHSA-2024:6632 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.12 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 4.16.12. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:6635

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):

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

cardinality metrics (CVE-2023-47108)

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 sha256:2a50e5d5267916078145731db740bbc85ee764e1a194715fd986ab5bf9a3414e

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:3b7185cda1eb48ab49e675adf68fa8f43764513ccd30e68614bc897dd3ef8f8b

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:033e475aaa8f0438bcd642bbe481f596a6bb5c13d61f844e7ea66d7ee205de19

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:00ba85049b9ed37766c07ab4d7b6ec207a48c8c469e22d1ea2038b5850425600

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 - 2251198 - CVE-2023-47108 opentelemetry-go-contrib: DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc due to unbound cardinality metrics
• OCPBUGS-33199 - The filepath including leading slash makes error during parsing devfile using Gitlab
• OCPBUGS-34803 - The hypershift cli (hcp) reports an inaccurate OCP supported version
• OCPBUGS-37726 - Update owners in route-override-cni
• OCPBUGS-38062 - [release-4.16] LDAP communication going through HTTP(S) proxy
• OCPBUGS-38424 - [release-4.16] In Cluster settings, version text is black when in dark mode on firefox
• OCPBUGS-38697 - Post SDN to OVN live migration shows intermittent service connectivity failures for OSD on GCP cluster
• OCPBUGS-38822 - capv session timeout
• OCPBUGS-38956 - Nutanix: failed to install OCP cluster with DHCP network (regression with the 4.16 installer)
• OCPBUGS-38997 - Machine-config daemon ListPools panic during tech-preview CI runs
• OCPBUGS-39015 - Bump to kubernetes 1.29.8
• OCPBUGS-39293 - AdditionalTrustedCA in ImageConfig is not wired correctly
• OCPBUGS-39323 - [Backport-4.16] co/ingress status cannot reflect the real condition
• OCPBUGS-39324 - [Backport-4.16] Cluster-ingress-operator logs an update when one didn't happen
• OCPBUGS-39412 - Multipart upload issues with Cloudflare R2 using S3 api
• OCPBUGS-39528 - [e2e] wrong validation of reserved cpus in irqbalance file
• OCPBUGS-41217 - OLM catalogsource pods do not recover from node failure when registryPoll is none
• OCPBUGS-41234 - Failed to list secrets when a large number exist on the cluster [4.16]
• OCPBUGS-41243 - No id found in /etc/groups inside container [openshift-4.16.z]
• OCPBUGS-41557 - [FLAKE] e2e: upgrade CRD with deprecated version

CVEs

• CVE-2023-47108
• CVE-2024-7006
• CVE-2024-38428

References

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