RHSA-2024:8434 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.3 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 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 4.17.3. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8437

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/4.17/release_notes/ocp-4-17-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• 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 4.17 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

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 sha256:2bf757225166a2d1f51370f0bd2ec734bcc8cf759fa1a53ab9531ce8c584c17c

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:24fc0f2cd53a451bce994b5f2ef40e0c2c4d221f201d42cd460881481a10cff5

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:fe485db26a2526e56207ae4e5d499d2b0e77154647aaf8aa180e9ab38ee71b3d

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:c0d27b077b91323792e7aedebad96a258c7fcfcb2b3ed965cc9a287f3fdb103a

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 - 2268046 - CVE-2024-24786 golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON
• OCPBUGS-29698 - Stopping instances results in machines stuck deleting
• OCPBUGS-34277 - ART requests updates to 4.17 image azure-kms-encryption-provider-container
• OCPBUGS-34310 - ART requests updates to 4.17 image ose-cluster-kube-apiserver-operator-container
• OCPBUGS-39121 - Live migration: CNO should report as a metric when there is network overlap
• OCPBUGS-41621 - [4.17] rpm-ostree-fix-shadow-mode.service is failing after reboot.
• OCPBUGS-41722 - Unable to register cluster s390x due to skip MCO reboot error
• OCPBUGS-41812 - Installer should validate MTU for OpenStack custom networks
• OCPBUGS-42108 - Node sclaling failed due to misconfigurations in on-prem-resolv-prepender.service in RHOCP4
• OCPBUGS-42327 - Fix the config loading warning in cns-migrator tool
• OCPBUGS-42474 - Env vars mentioned in Func.yaml not rendered in the Env section of the Import Forms
• OCPBUGS-42638 - [4.17] /boot/efi and /sysroot dir and subfiles are unlabeled_t
• OCPBUGS-42704 - Run 2 replicas of active/passive HA hypershift deployments
• OCPBUGS-42794 - PowerVS: Add support for preexisting transit gateway
• OCPBUGS-42876 - Add webhook validation to ptp-operator for event apiVersion
• OCPBUGS-42955 - Enable topology e2e tests in CI
• OCPBUGS-42979 - rendered MachineConfig in use not recreated in OpenShift 4.16
• OCPBUGS-43088 - GCP Validate Disk and Instance Type
• OCPBUGS-43316 - HyperShift should enforce privileged PSA by default in 4.17
• OCPBUGS-43329 - [IBMCloud] install only checks first set of subnets (no pagination support)
• OCPBUGS-43343 - Allow from host network networkpolicies do not work during live migration
• OCPBUGS-43350 - Image registry operator becomes degraded when setting management state to Removed when networkAccess is set to Internal
• OCPBUGS-43374 - openstack: nodepool condition error on unsupported arch
• OCPBUGS-43389 - Cloud controller manager operator can fail when running goimports through fmt make target
• OCPBUGS-43464 - Feature flags are not passed to cluster policy controller
• OCPBUGS-43545 - [release-4.17] default thanos-ruler retention time should be 24h, not 15d in api.md
• OCPBUGS-43547 - Power VS: Missing security group rules are not getting created
• OCPBUGS-43584 - Sync stable branch for cluster-api-provider-openstack release-0.10 into release-4.17
• OCPBUGS-43606 - [CLI Manager Operator] - cli manager cannot currently serve darwin/arm64 and windows/amd64 images

CVEs

• CVE-2021-47383
• CVE-2024-2201
• CVE-2024-5569
• CVE-2024-23271
• CVE-2024-24786
• CVE-2024-26640
• CVE-2024-26826
• CVE-2024-26923
• CVE-2024-26935
• CVE-2024-26961
• CVE-2024-27820
• CVE-2024-27838
• CVE-2024-27851
• CVE-2024-34155
• CVE-2024-34156
• CVE-2024-34158
• CVE-2024-36244
• CVE-2024-39472
• CVE-2024-39504
• CVE-2024-40776
• CVE-2024-40779
• CVE-2024-40780
• CVE-2024-40782
• CVE-2024-40789
• CVE-2024-40866
• CVE-2024-40904
• CVE-2024-40931
• CVE-2024-40960
• CVE-2024-40972
• CVE-2024-40977
• CVE-2024-40995
• CVE-2024-40998
• CVE-2024-41005
• CVE-2024-41013
• CVE-2024-41014
• CVE-2024-43854
• CVE-2024-44187
• CVE-2024-45018

References

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