RHSA-2026:40021 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.13.69 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 4.13.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2026:40020

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/4.13/html/release_notes

Security Fix(es):

• bind: BIND: Denial of Service via maliciously crafted DNSSEC-validated zone (CVE-2026-1519)
• glibc: glibc: Heap Buffer Overflow in `scanf` with `%mc` format specifier and large width CVE-2026-5450)
• kernel: net/sched: act_pedit: extend the writable skb range per key (CVE-2026-46331)
• kernel: Linux kernel: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions (CVE-2026-46243)

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 4.13 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/4.13/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-within-minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 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/4.13/html/release_notes

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

The sha value for the release is as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:6ff433fc5d4e0a3e7a0496e41af47da5c9349afeaad949e6d3bb49764618e1b9

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 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/4.13/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-within-minor.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2451305 - CVE-2026-1519 bind: BIND: Denial of Service via maliciously crafted DNSSEC-validated zone
• BZ - 2459853 - CVE-2026-5450 glibc: glibc: Heap Buffer Overflow in `scanf` with `%mc` format specifier and large width
• BZ - 2479492 - CVE-2026-46331 kernel: net/sched: act_pedit: extend the writable skb range per key
• BZ - 2481486 - CVE-2026-46243 kernel: Linux kernel: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions

CVEs

• CVE-2026-1519
• CVE-2026-5450
• CVE-2026-46243
• CVE-2026-46331

References

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