Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.31 bug fix and security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-21698   CVE-2022-23521   CVE-2022-41903  

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.31 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.31 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 4.11.

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

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:1157

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/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

  • prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)

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 4.11 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/4.11/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-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 sha256:5fbe52f0f89d72e4d28b2a40dc69174fe10cce0a99dc5caa6fcfbf4226e08919

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:5bf0f916f8a2c22d33f1da578274c201217e1e978a99730f4416fe528d3804c0

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:cc10900ad98b44ba432bc0d99e7d4fffb5498fd6844fc3b6a0a3552ee6d64059

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f91f7f747915f6e9dcc3c7dcaf1b8ef26d06c314c279f0fd6e65930d93598e62

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.11 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.11 for RHEL 8 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.11 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2045880 - CVE-2022-21698 prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter
  • OCPBUGS-2584 - python3-kubernetes is missing a dependency on python3-oauthlib and python3-requests-oauthlib
  • OCPBUGS-5954 - ip-reconciler removes the overlappingrangeipreservations whether the pod is alive or not [backport 4.11]
  • OCPBUGS-621 - [IBM Z]: Openshift-marketplace pods are in CrashLoopBackOff state
  • OCPBUGS-6993 - Hosted ovnkubernetes pods are not being spread among workers evenly
  • OCPBUGS-7727 - [4.11] Fix disaster recovery test [sig-etcd][Feature:DisasterRecovery][Disruptive] [Feature:EtcdRecovery] Cluster should restore itself after quorum loss [Serial]
  • OCPBUGS-7735 - [4.11] Afterburn fails on AWS/GCP clusters born in OCP 4.1/4.2
  • OCPBUGS-7950 - Repositories list does not show the running pipelinerun as last pipelinerun
  • OCPBUGS-7987 - Azure Disk volume is taking time to attach/detach