RHSA-2025:2696 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.17.21 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 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 4.17.21. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:2698

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/4.17/html/release_notes/

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy

and Mbox devices (CVE-2024-53197)

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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.17/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 sha256:875094103228a685ab9c2159f5bb97455a823d137e9da09bfd0e00af9296b042

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e58f5fcf5e47bd00bf0bc0eb73b4d16e0da066062e7034e387f5dbc4c574ed7c

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f016b55cf94d5b24de70ca8e708ee30caa176a668e747bfae4578c8b9ac2238c

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:1dbe1293475e6ac71e35301542a9e017a624e27ea17309194ed70439722092ac

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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.17/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli.

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 - 2334412 - CVE-2024-53197 kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices
• OCPBUGS-42387 - DataImage owned by deleted BareMetalHost is still present after BareMetalHost deletion
• OCPBUGS-46440 - HyperShift CEL validation blocks ARM64 NodePool creation for non-AWS/Azure platforms
• OCPBUGS-49795 - 'create a Project' button on Getting started page doesn't work
• OCPBUGS-50589 - Upgrade failing because custom scc in version pod
• OCPBUGS-51353 - Unexpected Permissions in `cluster-reader` ClusterRole in OpenShift 4.16
• OCPBUGS-52205 - Show Observe section without PROMETHEUS and MONITORING flags
• OCPBUGS-52292 - [4.17] runlogwatch in ironic-image is broken
• OCPBUGS-52497 - [release-4.17] Add runbook_url for CoreDNSErrorsHigh
• OCPBUGS-52657 - The trusted-ca-bundle-managed ConfigMap requirement breaks those with their own PKI

CVEs

• CVE-2021-47497
• CVE-2023-52520
• CVE-2023-52615
• CVE-2023-52922
• CVE-2024-26603
• CVE-2024-26744
• CVE-2024-35801
• CVE-2024-43830
• CVE-2024-50302
• CVE-2024-53197

References

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