RHSA-2024:5107 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.7 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 4.16.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:5110

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/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• python-werkzeug: user may execute code on a developer's machine

(CVE-2024-34069)

• go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file

(CVE-2024-6104)

• ncurses: NULL pointer dereference in tgetstr in tinfo/lib_termcap.c

(CVE-2023-45918)

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 4.16 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/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-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

(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:0d365611e78c5306975753975419851183536354273a6340021f9b1cdd2a34c3

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:97d964c6f8261715f085836a757e46aad4992b006f4151f48166c063099c3811

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:2c6fee680d01deecead598d8b027e1345e0915c0f2a9a260ed3ae953a100de62

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:035f90f1fade5e4346f79936a367573da59de007b943ec638f43241871d44f94

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.16 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.16 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.16 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2279451 - CVE-2024-34069 python-werkzeug: user may execute code on a developer's machine
• BZ - 2294000 - CVE-2024-6104 go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file
• BZ - 2300290 - CVE-2023-45918 ncurses: NULL pointer dereference in tgetstr in tinfo/lib_termcap.c
• OCPBUGS-30282 - Multiple MachineConfigs in one CM
• OCPBUGS-34783 - [4.16.z] SCC pinning for all workloads in platform namespaces
• OCPBUGS-34790 - [release-4.16] oauth login page templates include old OpenShift favicon
• OCPBUGS-36766 - Removing imageContentSources from HostedCluster does not update IDMS
• OCPBUGS-37078 - [backport 4.16] Sometimes dns name configured in EgressFirewall was not resolved
• OCPBUGS-37097 - QuickStartContext should be exposed via the dynamic plugin SDK
• OCPBUGS-37167 - 3rd master still not joining to the cluster on ABI
• OCPBUGS-37262 - wrong idrac-redfish management interface in BMO in redfish module
• OCPBUGS-37441 - Cluster API should sort CredentialsRequest manifests after namespace
• OCPBUGS-37454 - T-GM : ts2phc process restart doesn't update PTP syncState when the process recovered
• OCPBUGS-37456 - ART requests updates to 4.16 image ose-operator-framework-tools-container
• OCPBUGS-37485 - PSI causing latency issues
• OCPBUGS-37492 - RHOCP installation on Openstack fails with error "failed to tag the Control plane security group"
• OCPBUGS-37494 - [aws] "create" iam role permissions required even when BYO role
• OCPBUGS-37550 - edit nncp to update dns nameserver failed
• OCPBUGS-37607 - When vsphere bootstrap fails ipv6 address is used over ipv4 in gather
• OCPBUGS-37621 - Bump to kubernetes 1.29.7
• OCPBUGS-37707 - When node shutdown, the Pod whereabouts IP cannot be released (for a stateless application)
• OCPBUGS-37757 - Content mirrored with oc-mirror v2 does not push openshift/release images to registry
• OCPBUGS-37765 - [4.16] HostFirmwareComponents doesn't show the new firmware information in Status Components
• OCPBUGS-37795 - cluster-capi-operator: out-of-date openstack e2e branch
• OCPBUGS-37838 - Log bundle analizer gives bogus analyze when failing to download bootstrap logs
• OCPBUGS-37840 - Autonode sizing backport bug for upgrades to work
• OCPBUGS-37853 - Open limited z rollbacks again

CVEs

• CVE-2023-45918
• CVE-2024-6104
• CVE-2024-34064
• CVE-2024-34069
• CVE-2024-38473
• CVE-2024-39573

References

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