RHSA-2024:9610 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.5 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 4.17.5. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9613

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):

• libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat

(CVE-2024-45490)

• libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)
• libexpat: integer overflow (CVE-2024-45492)

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 sha256:02d489ee6aac3bed3cf6f3db81d72ab0215222a870784f81b6e7942cb4883944

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:fd416ceca86ec806a90260064f34aa5752c70579ace2a3a4b0facff5d7047b6d

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:3225f7cf16b4edb22bd4c779d6577ea0fbd4f0cf592b42337a36e0a6f59ea370

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:6fa4a4cb6b2e4c5f61b15868442e60c3c1cbdd6114b95c10e823de41ac056dbe

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 - 2308615 - CVE-2024-45490 libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat
• BZ - 2308616 - CVE-2024-45491 libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
• BZ - 2308617 - CVE-2024-45492 libexpat: integer overflow
• OCPBUGS-16141 - Fix ArtifactHub integration e2e test
• OCPBUGS-42835 - gather_network_logs_basics script when node is in the NotReady
• OCPBUGS-42879 - OAuth, Konnectivity, Ingress, Ignition fails due to netpol in HCP deployed with NodePort via KubeVirt
• OCPBUGS-42931 - Pods cannot reach their service when a NetworkAttachmentDefinition is configured
• OCPBUGS-42949 - Azure-file mount permission denied with private storage account created by internal image registry
• OCPBUGS-42964 - [release-4.17] Collect number of resources in etcd by must-gather
• OCPBUGS-43427 - Sync stable branch for cloud-provider-openstack release-1.30 into release-4.17
• OCPBUGS-43657 - API: Audit logs persisting request to /livez
• OCPBUGS-43667 - prometheus pods can crash in rare scenarios
• OCPBUGS-43690 - Prometheus write_relabel_configs in remotewrite unable to drop metric in Grafana
• OCPBUGS-43778 - 4.17: [VSphereCSIDriverOperator] [UPI Upgrade] VMwareVSphereControllerDegraded: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
• OCPBUGS-43972 - ABI cluster installation fails for external OCI platform
• OCPBUGS-44227 - PowerVS: Fix destroy persistent TG
• OCPBUGS-44357 - Fixing empty tuned submodule when using Dockerfile
• OCPBUGS-44452 - Update Test Requirements

CVEs

• CVE-2024-3596
• CVE-2024-44244
• CVE-2024-44296
• CVE-2024-45490
• CVE-2024-45491
• CVE-2024-45492

References

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