RHSA-2024:7594 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.15.36 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 4.15.36. There are no RPM packages for this release.

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):

• glibc: Out of bounds write in iconv may lead to remote code execution

(CVE-2024-2961)

• openstack-ironic: Specially crafted image may allow authenticated users

to gain access to potentially sensitive data (CVE-2024-44082)

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:a8579cdecf1d45d33b5e88d6e1922df3037d05b09bcff7f08556b75898ab2f46

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:97feeb7d2f5c94803257805b9fd440456f9f8603a9e3a9c212db598f3fff4a52

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:bdc13e27cc05ccff66e16ef6a34a998a4e2f40a5f8b524c9639f0df8e26f78b5

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:51e67caab0da8687b6a72accfa8d2d7981a4673f720cf68d95a553dd2c66f559

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 - 2273404 - CVE-2024-2961 glibc: Out of bounds write in iconv may lead to remote code execution
• BZ - 2309331 - CVE-2024-44082 openstack-ironic: Specially crafted image may allow authenticated users to gain access to potentially sensitive data
• OCPBUGS-38086 - [4.15] etcd vertical scaling test should not rely on CPMS status.readyReplicas
• OCPBUGS-38764 - The option "Auto deploy when new image is available" becomes unchecked when editing a deployment from web console
• OCPBUGS-39343 - The filepath including leading slash makes error during parsing devfile using Gitlab
• OCPBUGS-39395 - [release-4.15] gather nmstate custom resources
• OCPBUGS-41800 - [4.15.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces (machine-api-operator)
• OCPBUGS-41991 - Values entered into the Instantiate Template form are automatically cleared
• OCPBUGS-42114 - [4.15] opm creates FBCs which are incompatible with IIB catalogs
• OCPBUGS-42284 - Failure to pull NTO image preventing startup of ocp-tuned-one-shot.service
• OCPBUGS-42384 - Unable to edit "until" in silences (of alerts) from the Developer perspective
• OCPBUGS-42438 - [IBMCloud] MonitorTests fail due to CSI Driver pods require ClusterRole SCC binding
• OCPBUGS-42586 - alert for metrics endpoint at port 9537 shows connection refused for windows nodes

CVEs

• CVE-2023-20584
• CVE-2023-31356
• CVE-2024-2961
• CVE-2024-7409
• CVE-2024-27415
• CVE-2024-34156
• CVE-2024-36270
• CVE-2024-36979
• CVE-2024-38558
• CVE-2024-44082

References

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