RHSA-2025:1703 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.18 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 4.17.

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 4.17.18. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:1706

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/4.17/release_notes/ocp-4-17-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• github.com/moby/moby: NULL Pointer Dereference in Moby (CVE-2024-36620)

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 4.17 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/4.17/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/release_notes/ocp-4-17-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:fd8f5562f0403504b35cc62e064b04c34e6baeb48384bddebffc98c3c69a2af3

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5ffb0d4986f4bd6ac16a21262742f55b366858d5152bccc2ab128ae59aa8f99b

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:cc96f5d549433af43252fb4bacdf5b38dbde635c8674b99c1182a6ade4dcf077

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:baeccc1822bf4dc06376549b57ff516f5426bb6cedcf7a4e4a3078a201628230

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 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/4.17/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.htmla

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.17 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.17 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.17 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2329534 - CVE-2024-36620 github.com/moby/moby: NULL Pointer Dereference in Moby
• OCPBUGS-39130 - Block users from adding 2nd vCenter as day-2 in infra object
• OCPBUGS-48487 - HO issue determining the cluster payload arch does not checks the ICSP/IDMS
• OCPBUGS-48488 - Pods cannot connect to apiserver in IPv6 disconnected hosted cluster
• OCPBUGS-48490 - The installation failed in the disconnected environment due to GetRegistryOverride() does not take SHA into account.
• OCPBUGS-49363 - MCO doesn't recover pool from degraded state
• OCPBUGS-49828 - If hostDevices.deviceName has multiple types, the generated hostDevices.name has duplicates.
• OCPBUGS-49905 - Bump to kubernetes 1.30.9
• OCPBUGS-49975 - [aws/edge/byo-vpc] Kubernetes cluster tag isn't set in edge deployments BYO VPC kubernetes.io/cluster/<InfraID>=shared
• OCPBUGS-50596 - HyperShift Control Plane Operator doesn't honor proxy env variable in some places
• OCPBUGS-50610 - The cnf-tests image is using the wrong image version to run the tests
• OCPBUGS-50673 - [ironic-image] Install python3-inotify pkg explicitly
• OCPBUGS-50876 - [AWS] "kubernetes.io/cluster/${infra_id}:shared" tag was missing in BYO private subnets

CVEs

• CVE-2024-36620

References

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