RHSA-2025:3573 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.75 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 4.12.75. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:3575

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/4.12/html/release_notes

Security Fix(es):

• buildah: Buildah allows arbitrary directory mount (CVE-2024-9675)
• golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in

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

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

and Mbox devices (CVE-2024-53197)

• libxml2: Use-After-Free in libxml2 (CVE-2024-56171)
• grub2: net: Out-of-bounds write in grub_net_search_config_file()

(CVE-2025-0624)

• libxml2: Stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements of libxml2

(CVE-2025-24928)

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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-within-minor.

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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.12/html/release_notes

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

The sha value for the release are as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:24c2ea09853e520e47bdd03e5fc9b865f0a8bac7a38aad458e9785fe0f7546ac

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 - 2317458 - CVE-2024-9675 buildah: Buildah allows arbitrary directory mount
• BZ - 2333122 - CVE-2024-45338 golang.org/x/net/html: Non-linear parsing of case-insensitive content in golang.org/x/net/html
• BZ - 2334412 - CVE-2024-53197 kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential out-of-bound accesses for Extigy and Mbox devices
• BZ - 2346112 - CVE-2025-0624 grub2: net: Out-of-bounds write in grub_net_search_config_file()
• BZ - 2346416 - CVE-2024-56171 libxml2: Use-After-Free in libxml2
• BZ - 2346421 - CVE-2025-24928 libxml2: Stack-based buffer overflow in xmlSnprintfElements of libxml2
• OCPBUGS-50502 - EgressIP Healthcheck silently breaks 18 days after ovn-cert rotation

CVEs

• CVE-2024-9675
• CVE-2024-45338
• CVE-2024-50602
• CVE-2024-53197
• CVE-2024-56171
• CVE-2025-0624
• CVE-2025-21785
• CVE-2025-24928
• CVE-2025-27363

References

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