RHSA-2025:0650 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.32 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 4.16.32. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:0652

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):

• python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory (CVE-2023-6597)
• runc: file descriptor leak (CVE-2024-21626)
• golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in

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

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 sha256:0e71cb61694473b40e8d95f530eaf250a62616debb98199f31b4034808687dae

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:9a9994d9b6b56faf3d158e479e87f15ede5783c7408433129547c917d1c90fcc

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:cf6a70ea1b63cb49fca5aae3de7991d2c9321343943967f4653827f328ccef3a

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:0a52bafb899c924f448612b7ca6bb96a9062cd80385d3f9aa567aebac97931e5

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 - 2258725 - CVE-2024-21626 runc: file descriptor leak
• BZ - 2276518 - CVE-2023-6597 python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory
• BZ - 2333122 - CVE-2024-45338 golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html
• OCPBUGS-29616 - Vsphere Plugin degraded
• OCPBUGS-29823 - vSphere connection configuration modal stays in unresponsive status for a long time after user updates 'Virtual Machine Folder' value
• OCPBUGS-43765 - MachineConfigs should not have Restart=on-failure for oneshot systemd units
• OCPBUGS-45999 - Azure: Always set cross_tenant_replication_enabled parameter to False
• OCPBUGS-46341 - Cloud provider vsphere can fail when running goimports through fmt make target
• OCPBUGS-46567 - ImagePullSecret getting duplicated when editing DeploymentConfig in Form View
• OCPBUGS-46602 - ReRun of Resolver based PipelineRuns fails from UI
• OCPBUGS-47663 - Power VS: Available SysTypes should be decided by zone rather than region
• OCPBUGS-47755 - Fips compliant ptp operator and the operand (linuxptp-daemon)
• OCPBUGS-47775 - builder Unit Test Permanently Failing
• OCPBUGS-48061 - [4.16]Insights alerts - OCPBUGS-13915 in 4.14.z
• OCPBUGS-48116 - Multiple reboots during EUS upgrade on Control Plane nodes
• OCPBUGS-48144 - [release-4.16]nto:e2e: handle regex properly
• OCPBUGS-48159 - OWNERS update
• OCPBUGS-48202 - OWNERS update
• OCPBUGS-48258 - unit test race conditon in cluster operator status controller
• OCPBUGS-48348 - [openshift-4.16] CI Failure: [sig-builds][Feature:Builds][Slow] s2i build with environment file in sources Building from a template should create a image from "test-env-build.json" template and run it in a pod
• OCPBUGS-48422 - Tuned profile degraded test fix
• OCPBUGS-48442 - Validation failure when RendezvousIP is a substring of next-hop-address
• OCPBUGS-48484 - zone/projectID field in gcpProviderspec allows invalid value
• OCPBUGS-48538 - e2e installs wrong lib versions
• OCPBUGS-48544 - [release-4.16] OWNERS file update
• OCPBUGS-48661 - When installing an operator OLM locks the Subscription 3-15% of the times [release-4.16]
• OCPBUGS-44186 - user system:serviceaccount:openshift-infra:serviceaccount-pull-secrets-controller in ns/openshift-infra must not produce too many applies

CVEs

• CVE-2023-6597
• CVE-2024-21626
• CVE-2024-45338
• CVE-2024-54479
• CVE-2024-54502
• CVE-2024-54505
• CVE-2024-54508

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2024-001