RHSA-2024:7944 - Security Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.17 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 Moderate. 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

RRed 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 4.16.17. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:7947

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):

• pgx: SQL Injection via Line Comment Creation (CVE-2024-27289)

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:a5bfe05de4c9a5cf4a5609105c539e6f8ba92731f068f13bbac94ceb855ce1d7

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:437aaa6290b7b3b57311ec605308859d3330f09c8604e91d55ea2346b709f8c2

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:0465e61d75adbd1a54cc661d763b25ce805c60609a0ccc86bf5819361feab8ef

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:955bc3576eb5902ea912d4577a614ff12a502eb5d1888e431328514fe40ecc83

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 - 2268465 - CVE-2024-27289 pgx: SQL Injection via Line Comment Creation
• OCPBUGS-33673 - Avoid v1-FlowSchema-unrecognized noise in 4.15-to-4.16 updates
• OCPBUGS-37615 - PF4 chart color CSS variables not available in OpenShift 4.15+
• OCPBUGS-38458 - Manila driver and node-registrar does not uses healtcheck
• OCPBUGS-39017 - Ironic inspection fails due to utf-8 decoding issue on Disk serial
• OCPBUGS-39379 - [4.16] Automate OCPBUGS-34812: cgroupsv2: failed to write on cpuset.cpus.exclusive
• OCPBUGS-41256 - Configure-ovs doesn't persist ethtool configuration
• OCPBUGS-41293 - Supporting Bridge Type Linux Interfaces for Primary Networking
• OCPBUGS-41334 - UPI playbooks when master schedulable fails
• OCPBUGS-41551 - Nodes to Node and subsequently pod to pod communication are repeatedly degrading despite multiple OVN DB rebuilds to fix the issue
• OCPBUGS-42342 - ROSA HCP Nodepool versions unexpectedly do not match Node versions
• OCPBUGS-42431 - Hypershift is managing kubeconfigs for DNS and Ingress operators
• OCPBUGS-42720 - oc adm prune deployments` does not work and giving panic when using --replica-set option

CVEs

• CVE-2024-27289

References

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