RHSA-2024:9615 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.23 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 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 4.16.23. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9618

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):

• 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 4.16 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:be725d2e56befbcb28068207b77d731650ad2c82ae77630f46631af750894347

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:d931e1c6ada8869765e43480235c9029fdeb32311cc59afbd495a2366ffaf210

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f69f71b59b5e797872065ea84e9e06f60b4bc64c3e8fff8d2c356e09d4d9297f

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:818beb020ebab89caa0a68304ac6a58ed365ad4ff192c130b4cc0695660cddc1

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
• OCPBUGS-36290 - [IBMCLOUD] New VPC regions not GA'd cause failures during resource lookup
• OCPBUGS-38930 - Invalid configuration for device 0 error with openshift-installer for vsphere
• OCPBUGS-43344 - Allow from host network networkpolicies do not work during live migration
• OCPBUGS-43834 - Enable topology e2e tests in CI
• OCPBUGS-43967 - Re-vendor assisted-service to make external platform work
• OCPBUGS-44104 - Errors reported by tuned when using SecureBoot
• OCPBUGS-44105 - network-edge DNS case failed: 'DNS should answer A and AAAA queries for a dual-stack service'
• OCPBUGS-44182 - Update admins to add CFE members
• OCPBUGS-44194 - [4.16]gather admin and edit clusterrole definitions
• OCPBUGS-44234 - Backwards compatibility for ENI tagging in AWS on HCP ROSA
• OCPBUGS-44301 - pod cannot be ready during live migration
• OCPBUGS-44337 - Removal of additionalTrustBundle CA that was passed via install-config.yaml during agent-based installation, does not remove certificate from node
• OCPBUGS-44361 - Fixing empty tuned submodule when using Dockerfile

CVEs

• CVE-2024-3596
• CVE-2024-9407
• CVE-2024-9675
• CVE-2024-9676
• CVE-2024-24786
• CVE-2024-44244
• CVE-2024-44296

References

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