RHSA-2024:8229 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.2 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 4.17.

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.
Security Fix(es):

• encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains

deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion
(CVE-2024-34156)

• jose-go: improper handling of highly compressed data (CVE-2024-28180)
• go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply

nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)

• go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a "// +build" build tag

line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack
exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)

• openstack-ironic: Lack of checksum validation on images (CVE-2024-47211)

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.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/release_notes/ocp-4-17-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 as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e63e11532f9ee550219f076530ce449a5e2ce6f6179e5ccdaf55ce68092e7021

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:15561e9bef74ea74bb2bdffe9070614b6d1d0c1f77d436770d2f96240d8b85f2

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:c65c528b7d7e09dfbe91dfc45d782687155ec7f07f83030922f349ab0be94d2b

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:7b544fb8fd674d403030cb26fa41780896f578aa83a23c35474918308aef4a1f

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2268854 - CVE-2024-28180 jose-go: improper handling of highly compressed data
• BZ - 2310527 - CVE-2024-34155 go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion
• BZ - 2310528 - CVE-2024-34156 encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion
• BZ - 2310529 - CVE-2024-34158 go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a "// +build" build tag line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion
• BZ - 2315010 - CVE-2024-47211 openstack-ironic: Lack of checksum validation on images
• OCPBUGS-36453 - PowerVS: add .ssh directory to upi-installer
• OCPBUGS-38116 - Ansible Operator is broken when OpenShift Virtualization is installed
• OCPBUGS-41552 - ROSA HCP Nodepool versions unexpectedly do not match Node versions
• OCPBUGS-42176 - Day2 add node with oc binary is not working on ARM64
• OCPBUGS-42349 - Azure CAPI: installation failed when configured customer-managed key for storage account
• OCPBUGS-42607 - 4.17/4.18 dev console, input "in" in the query-browser input text-area, the cursor would focus in the project drop-down list
• OCPBUGS-42716 - [4.17] Bootimage bump tracker
• OCPBUGS-42784 - manifests should not use APIs that are removed in upcoming releases
• OCPBUGS-42803 - cli manager should be able to get correct image incase of multi-arch images
• OCPBUGS-42806 - bootstrap log bundle path issue when finding service file "release-image"
• OCPBUGS-42839 - Rendezvous node is failed to add the cluster due to some pending CSR's.
• OCPBUGS-42842 - Add new tested azure instances types in installer doc
• OCPBUGS-42953 - Update base image of scaffolded Dockerfile for ose-kube-rbac-proxy to use rhel9 repository
• OCPBUGS-42954 - Adding plugin via cli manager on disconnected cluster fails with certificate errors
• OCPBUGS-42958 - [release-4.17] OSUS: create a must-gather image to collect OSUS specific data
• OCPBUGS-42974 - Traffic to audit-webhook:8443 getting routed through Konnectivity proxy in ROSA
• OCPBUGS-42996 - Power VS: Installer segfaults when deploying a private cluster.
• OCPBUGS-42997 - [4.17 EFS] controller, node pods are left behind after uninstalling driver
• OCPBUGS-43009 - Project is "Undefined" on "VolumeSnapshot" create page
• OCPBUGS-43051 - HCP unable to pull images from registries only accessible from worker nodes
• OCPBUGS-43069 - ABI Installation failing for compact and HA clusters in vSphere environment
• OCPBUGS-43112 - hypershift: shared-resource-csi-driver-operator SA does not include HCP pull-secret
• OCPBUGS-43227 - Clean up Subscription configMap during event API upgrade
• OCPBUGS-43312 - aws autoscaler broken with dhcp option domain-name
• OCPBUGS-43321 - PTP Operator : update maintainer email to a group name

CVEs

• CVE-2024-5569
• CVE-2024-9341
• CVE-2024-28180
• CVE-2024-34155
• CVE-2024-34156
• CVE-2024-34158
• CVE-2024-47211

References

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