- Issued:
- 2025-09-04
- Updated:
- 2025-09-04
RHSA-2025:14858 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.47 bug fix and security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.47 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 4.16.47. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:14854
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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.16/html/release_notes/
Security Fix(es):
- libxslt: Heap Use-After-Free in libxslt caused by atype corruption in
xmlAttrPtr (CVE-2025-7425)
- git: Git arbitrary code execution (CVE-2025-48384)
- git: Git arbitrary file writes (CVE-2025-48385)
- libxml2: Out-of-Bounds Read in libxml2 (CVE-2025-32414)
- libxml2: Out-of-bounds Read in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables
(CVE-2025-32415)
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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.16/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.
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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.16/html/release_notes/
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:b2d8af25d1a0440fce3e16a7d5481a228c29bdf7510f9c2bbef241e495004992
(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:b8fa63beeecb258529d2b8b22fdd90ef4846691c8e41aaff2d02279d72563a25
(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:6847316b4a13f663f32227107ae23f31a223dcc3b7d1718da837b8a539e97212
(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:6a66ef4370c883267c500672f7c9b53293a431049fd0ec2496c9ab5ecdcc0ce5
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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.16/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.
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 - 2358121 - CVE-2025-32414 libxml2: Out-of-Bounds Read in libxml2
- BZ - 2360768 - CVE-2025-32415 libxml2: Out-of-bounds Read in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables
- BZ - 2378806 - CVE-2025-48384 git: Git arbitrary code execution
- BZ - 2378808 - CVE-2025-48385 git: Git arbitrary file writes
- BZ - 2379274 - CVE-2025-7425 libxslt: Heap Use-After-Free in libxslt caused by atype corruption in xmlAttrPtr
The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.