Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.1 security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.1 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:0448

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:

Security Fix(es):

• goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be (CVE-2021-4238)

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.

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.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

You can download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests can 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:a4838c937bbf0902a836107476f6167e47b0340b2ad2444937c69a0a8409f896

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:60cc442c026a55ef520ef19ba11da429b78679f03d5a06ea5c17e8f9a05a7144

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:069f53c782593281f74815801a114acd53aecba0ab80525792fd98903b2aec09

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:112cec5d4cde792aa3c2cf0fb8c2761fbe3e2281b433b9128c2cb23188b2effe

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 - 2106264 - Static pods stuck in 'CreateContainerError' after SDN migration then rollback on Ali Cloud
• BZ - 2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
• OCPBUGS-1801 - ibm-powervs-block-csi-driver-controller does not set resource requests
• OCPBUGS-3678 - [RFE] Add kernel-rpm-macros to DTK image
• OCPBUGS-4363 - TargetDown alert expression is NOT correctly joining kube-state-metrics metric
• OCPBUGS-4460 - Bootstraps' pivot service races with bootkube
• OCPBUGS-4486 - NMstate removes egressip in OpenShift cluster with SDN plugin
• OCPBUGS-4600 - FBC catalog server has high startup time and initial memory usage
• OCPBUGS-4609 - [vsphere-csi-driver-operator] CSI cloud.conf doesn't list multiple datacenters when specified
• OCPBUGS-4960 - Topology sidebar actions doesn't show the latest resource data
• OCPBUGS-5046 - [4.12] unit test data race with egress ip tests
• OCPBUGS-5083 - precondition: Do not claim warnings would have blocked
• OCPBUGS-5117 - machine.openshift.io API is not supported in Machine API webhooks
• OCPBUGS-5154 - OCP on OSP - Image registry is deployed with cinder instead of swift storage backend
• OCPBUGS-5155 - [capi] Prevent users from deleting providers
• OCPBUGS-5263 - read-only update UX: confusing "Update blocked" pop-up
• OCPBUGS-5303 - read-only update UX: confusing "Control plane is hosted" banner
• OCPBUGS-5348 - [release-4.12] Clusteroperator Available condition is updated every 2 mins when operator is disabled
• OCPBUGS-5401 - Control Plane Machine Set Operator OnDelete update should cause an error when more than one machine is ready in an index
• OCPBUGS-5403 - [osp][octavia lb] LBs type svcs not updated until all the LBs are created
• OCPBUGS-5429 - Cherry-Pick Downstream Operator-SDK v1.25.1 PR to the release-4.12 branch
• OCPBUGS-5468 - openshift-marketplace pods cause PodSecurityViolation alert to fire
• OCPBUGS-5476 - kubernetes-nmstate does not pass CVP tests in 4.12
• OCPBUGS-5513 - [Azure/ARO: 4.12 backport] Update Azure SDK to v63.1.0+incompatible
• OCPBUGS-5761 - wal: max entry size limit exceeded
• OCPBUGS-5764 - Expose Azure useImageGallery parameter in the MachineSets() call
• OCPBUGS-5786 - ClusterResourceQuota values are not reflecting.
• OCPBUGS-5820 - New master will be created if add duplicated failuredomains in controlplanemachineset
• OCPBUGS-5844 - Update FCOS to 36.20220906.3.2
• OCPBUGS-5879 - Upgradeability check is throttled too much and with unnecessary non-determinism
• OCPBUGS-5923 - [4.12] nodeport not reachable port connection timeout
• OCPBUGS-6015 - fail to create install-config.yaml as apiVIP and ingressVIP are not in machine networks
• OCPBUGS-6064 - Sync stable branch for CPO release-1.25 into release-4.12
• OCPBUGS-896 - Cannot launch add capacity modal from alert action button

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4238

References

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