RHSA-2025:0832 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.72 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 4.12.72. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0834

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):

• python: Path traversal on tempfile.TemporaryDirectory (CVE-2023-6597)
• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive

work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)

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

causes DoS (CVE-2023-45288)

• 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 4.12 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 can download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64 architecture. The image digest can be found at https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags.

The sha value for the release is:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:678a46017c31128166b20c11ae17bb17ab2c6cc4320a8c3ba552cc08f9430a9a

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 - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
• BZ - 2268273 - CVE-2023-45288 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS
• 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-45333 - Bump golang.org/x/net to 0.31.0
• OCPBUGS-47544 - Add python script to handle test result from 4.17 to 4.12
• OCPBUGS-47644 - Update cluster-api-actuator-pkg labels to distinguish different tests
• OCPBUGS-48325 - [release-4.12] control-plane-machine-set goes Available=False with UnavailableReplicas during updates
• OCPBUGS-48549 - [release-4.12] OWNERS file update
• OCPBUGS-48568 - e2e installs wrong lib versions
• OCPBUGS-49345 - builder Unit Test Permanently Failing

CVEs

• CVE-2023-6597
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-45288
• CVE-2024-45338
• CVE-2024-49768
• CVE-2024-49769
• CVE-2024-53263

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-003