RHSA-2024:8692 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.68 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 4.12.

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 4.12.68. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8694

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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames

causes DoS (CVE-2023-45288)

• 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)

• net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in

net/http (CVE-2024-24791)

• 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)

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 4.12 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/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-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 sha256:6f6dbbac008152af490893a3bef46757d7f15d8cb1d4a72b426019339e7bbb00

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:6005afb4de243d2a9cde3bb9254ca0c87dfe0146e2179ec7fe6773c8de6b77f4

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2268273 - CVE-2023-45288 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS
• BZ - 2295310 - CVE-2024-24791 net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http
• 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
• OCPBUGS-25783 - MetalLB operator 4.11 - 4.13 fails FIPS check-payload scan
• OCPBUGS-33519 - Metrics Targets page shows "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'scrapePool')" error
• OCPBUGS-37322 - Resolve snyk issue: google.golang.org/grpc [4.12]
• OCPBUGS-38382 - kubelet does not start after reboot due to dependency issue
• OCPBUGS-41248 - No id found in /etc/groups inside container [openshift-4.12.z]
• OCPBUGS-43872 - Cloud Credential Operator down due to GCP backupdr.googleapis.com access request

CVEs

• CVE-2021-47384
• CVE-2022-48773
• CVE-2023-1252
• CVE-2023-45288
• CVE-2023-52489
• CVE-2024-2201
• CVE-2024-3596
• CVE-2024-5535
• CVE-2024-9341
• CVE-2024-9676
• CVE-2024-24791
• CVE-2024-26671
• CVE-2024-26686
• CVE-2024-26826
• CVE-2024-26961
• CVE-2024-34155
• CVE-2024-34156
• CVE-2024-34158
• CVE-2024-36889
• CVE-2024-40960
• CVE-2024-40998
• CVE-2024-41049
• CVE-2024-41055
• CVE-2024-41064
• CVE-2024-42152
• CVE-2024-44082

References

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