RHSA-2024:8415 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.19 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 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 4.16.19. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8418

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):

• openshift-console: OAuth2 insufficient state parameter entropy

(CVE-2024-6508)

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

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

• 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.
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 as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:sha256:91167e05309698940a16cfb80096772100fdd7c612bee4b84084b1deb26d562a

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:sha256:bf0f76c2f460aceb7bff00bb52bf7741da2bd4cd2b6090f2d1fddf145b1d4ce1

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:sha256:cc7bac5a4058b58b4e715967f0b90016b581485ab85c55f941a3cebf85da9f9c

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:sha256:fc8b5ba9f694bdee0fb5329c4f8f74ce5736a017d44029eb0c561566171feab5

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 - 2268046 - CVE-2024-24786 golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON
• BZ - 2295777 - CVE-2024-6508 openshift-console: OAuth2 insufficient state parameter entropy
• BZ - 2315010 - CVE-2024-47211 openstack-ironic: Lack of checksum validation on images
• OCPBUGS-36594 - ovnkube-node hostPath mount of /var/lib/kubelet is missing HostToContainer mountPropagation, breaks CSI driver
• OCPBUGS-36698 - [IBMCloud] MAPI only checks first set of subnets (no pagination support)
• OCPBUGS-42125 - [IBMCloud] CCM liveness probe in failure loop
• OCPBUGS-42710 - Rendezvous node is failed to add the cluster due to some pending CSR's.
• OCPBUGS-42719 - MCPs report wrong number of nodes when we move nodes from one custom MCP to another custom MCP
• OCPBUGS-42722 - Panic seen in CI job for MCC pod
• OCPBUGS-43046 - Traffic to audit-webhook:8443 getting routed through Konnectivity proxy in ROSA
• OCPBUGS-43347 - PTP Operator : update maintainer email to a group name
• OCPBUGS-43473 - Cloud controller manager operator can fail when running goimports through fmt make target
• OCPBUGS-43555 - Image registry operator becomes degraded when setting management state to Removed when networkAccess is set to Internal

CVEs

• CVE-2024-5569
• CVE-2024-6508
• CVE-2024-9341
• CVE-2024-24786
• CVE-2024-34155
• CVE-2024-34156
• CVE-2024-34158
• CVE-2024-47211

References

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