Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.2 bug fix and security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.13.2 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 [impact]. 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 4.13.2. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3366

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/4.13/release_notes/ocp-4-13-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)
• net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)
• golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation (CVE-2023-24534)
• golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2023-24536)
• golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)
• golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)
• golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)
• golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes (CVE-2023-29400)

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.openshift.com/container-platform/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

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.openshift.com/container-platform/4.13/release_notes/ocp-4-13-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 sha256:6ef3cf4bed1970d547dce08a6e334b675d361b212427c4493151dcad6e093d27

(For s390x architecture) The image digest is sha256:a600147c885c1a5472552ca388727ad1276f0151f8d0ab6ef3e9e957e839ad23

(For ppc64le architecture) The image digest is sha256:6d0a80ddc826ecef0369bc8ba5bb03c84b5ffdad9439ed27e5484280161b0708

(For aarch64 architecture) The image digest is sha256:3cf7068c1c6a5a6e1195e6c9658b1e1093dbcc0af7e1de6eaf446e79af83c1ce

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 Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

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 - 2178358 - CVE-2022-41723 net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding
• BZ - 2184481 - CVE-2023-24538 golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters
• BZ - 2184482 - CVE-2023-24536 golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 2184483 - CVE-2023-24534 golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation
• BZ - 2184484 - CVE-2023-24537 golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing
• BZ - 2196026 - CVE-2023-24539 golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values
• BZ - 2196027 - CVE-2023-24540 golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace
• BZ - 2196029 - CVE-2023-29400 golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes
• OCPBUGS-10493 - Nutanix: Hostname of the VM is not set when using DHCP network config
• OCPBUGS-12864 - Traffic leaving out of Openshift nodes with Pod/Node IP instead of Egress IP
• OCPBUGS-13334 - [4.13] IPI redfish installation fails on inspect for EthernetInterfaces
• OCPBUGS-13927 - Deleting unmanaged BMH get stuck
• OCPBUGS-13974 - The MCO will not be able to downgrade from 4.14 to 4.13 due to ignition spec issues
• OCPBUGS-14027 - [gcp] IPI installation to a shared VPC with 'credentialsMode: Manual' failed, due to no IAM service accounts for control-plane machines and compute machines
• OCPBUGS-14048 - Bump to kubernetes 1.26.5
• OCPBUGS-14091 - [4.13] Object count quotas do not work for certain objects in ClusterResourceQuotas
• OCPBUGS-14108 - Unable to modify CatalogSource registryPoll interval in OCP 4.12.5
• OCPBUGS-14127 - e2e-agnostic-ovn-cmd is permanently failing due to registry.centos.org
• OCPBUGS-14180 - TestNewApp unit tests in oc are failing
• OCPBUGS-646 - The worker-rt nodes flips between two rendered-worker-rt* currentConfigs and desiredConfigs after upgrade to OCP4.11.1

CVEs

• CVE-2020-17049
• CVE-2021-38578
• CVE-2021-46848
• CVE-2022-1304
• CVE-2022-2309
• CVE-2022-2795
• CVE-2022-2928
• CVE-2022-2929
• CVE-2022-3094
• CVE-2022-3165
• CVE-2022-3204
• CVE-2022-3358
• CVE-2022-3715
• CVE-2022-3736
• CVE-2022-3924
• CVE-2022-4172
• CVE-2022-4304
• CVE-2022-4450
• CVE-2022-25147
• CVE-2022-25255
• CVE-2022-28805
• CVE-2022-30629
• CVE-2022-35737
• CVE-2022-36227
• CVE-2022-40023
• CVE-2022-40303
• CVE-2022-40304
• CVE-2022-41717
• CVE-2022-41723
• CVE-2022-41724
• CVE-2022-41973
• CVE-2022-42010
• CVE-2022-42011
• CVE-2022-42012
• CVE-2022-47024
• CVE-2022-47629
• CVE-2022-48303
• CVE-2022-48337
• CVE-2022-48338
• CVE-2022-48339
• CVE-2023-0215
• CVE-2023-0286
• CVE-2023-1017
• CVE-2023-1018
• CVE-2023-2295
• CVE-2023-2491
• CVE-2023-22490
• CVE-2023-23946
• CVE-2023-24534
• CVE-2023-24536
• CVE-2023-24537
• CVE-2023-24538
• CVE-2023-24539
• CVE-2023-24540
• CVE-2023-25136
• CVE-2023-25652
• CVE-2023-25815
• CVE-2023-27535
• CVE-2023-29007
• CVE-2023-29400

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.13/release_notes/ocp-4-13-release-notes.html