RHSA-2025:0140 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.30 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 4.16.30. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:0143

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.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in

golang.org/x/net/html (CVE-2024-45338)

• unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service

(CVE-2024-8508)

• GraphQL: Information Disclosure via GraphQL Introspection in OpenShift

(CVE-2024-50312)

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 sha256:7aacace57ab6ec468dd98b0b3e0f3fc440b29afce21b90bd716fed0db487e9e9

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:83d85abae03310d7875f484ea2ba5d0224fe9196d7be0556032feb9685282472

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e9a6f42c118d20b1e81dcd17c4a2166becdd558dd55d5badd33a36cdda5118fa

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:184c6892722a60f87a0efea8eaca8fbbca3cebfc7c0eb6496005c241ce383a22

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 - 2316321 - CVE-2024-8508 unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service
• BZ - 2319378 - CVE-2024-50312 GraphQL: Information Disclosure via GraphQL Introspection in OpenShift
• BZ - 2333122 - CVE-2024-45338 golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html
• OCPBUGS-46524 - BareMetalHost CR fails to delete on cluster cleanup
• OCPBUGS-47645 - Azure Cloud Controller Manager Panic
• OCPBUGS-47698 - e2e: add irdma to module_blacklist kernel args
• OCPBUGS-47701 - [release-4.16] PPC: false negative reporting while comparing the topologies of affected compute nodes
• OCPBUGS-47704 - Too many pending CSRs lead to scaleup failures when scaling to 500 nodes
• OCPBUGS-47738 - Evicted Pods owned by Catalogsource are not rescheduled
• OCPBUGS-47793 - Bad HTTP response (409) sent when the subscription request is not correct
• OCPBUGS-47795 - Unable to subscribe two or more consumers to the same PTP event

CVEs

• CVE-2024-8508
• CVE-2024-38598
• CVE-2024-45338
• CVE-2024-50312
• CVE-2024-53088
• CVE-2024-53122

References

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