Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.29 packages and security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-6476  

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.29 packages and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for containernetworking-plugins, cri-o, kernel, kernel-rt, and openshift is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.

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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.29. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0193

Security Fix(es):

  • cri-o: Pods are able to break out of resource confinement on cgroupv2 (CVE-2023-6476)

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 4.13 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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

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 - 2253994 - CVE-2023-6476 cri-o: Pods are able to break out of resource confinement on cgroupv2