RHSA-2025:4409 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.76 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 4.12.76. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:4411

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):

• freetype: OOB write when attempting to parse font subglyph structures

related to TrueType GX and variable font files (CVE-2025-27363)

• golang-jwt/jwt: jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header

parsing (CVE-2025-30204)

• libxml: use-after-free in xmlXIncludeAddNode (CVE-2022-49043)
• kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock

sources (CVE-2024-53150)

• baremetal-operator/apis: Bare Metal Operator (BMO) can expose any secret

from other namespaces via BMCEventSubscription CRD (CVE-2025-29781)

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 is:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:07dfb0210dbe48ec222a9ffcad4bcf1e5b7e5e32140f911e753fe90dcfd4cd12

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.

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 - 2333971 - CVE-2024-53150 kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock sources
• BZ - 2342118 - CVE-2022-49043 libxml: use-after-free in xmlXIncludeAddNode
• BZ - 2351357 - CVE-2025-27363 freetype: OOB write when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files
• BZ - 2353041 - CVE-2025-29781 baremetal-operator/apis: Bare Metal Operator (BMO) can expose any secret from other namespaces via BMCEventSubscription CRD
• BZ - 2354195 - CVE-2025-30204 golang-jwt/jwt: jwt-go allows excessive memory allocation during header parsing
• OCPBUGS-53420 - SNYK: Medium severity vulnerability found in github.com/golang/glog
• OCPBUGS-54147 - [openshift-4.13] OWNERS update for build component
• OCPBUGS-55210 - Show Observe section without PROMETHEUS and MONITORING flags

CVEs

• CVE-2022-49043
• CVE-2024-2236
• CVE-2024-53150
• CVE-2024-55549
• CVE-2025-0395
• CVE-2025-21927
• CVE-2025-29781
• CVE-2025-30204

References

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