Important: OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.6.173.0.130 is now available with updates to packages that fix one security issue and several bugs.

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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6.173.0.130. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:2655

This update fixes the following bug:

• atomic-openshift: oc patch with json causes masterapi service crash (CVE-2018-14632)
  

All OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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.

Red Hat would like to thank Lars Haugan for reporting this issue.

Bug Fix(es):

• Retries have been added to shared-resource-viewer update
  logic avoiding problems with object contention. (BZ#1507119)
  
• Certificate expiry playbook run error (BZ#1509859)
  
• Running metrics playbook for cleanup with Ansible 2.2.3 fails about field 'args' including invalid value (BZ#1550680)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

See the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 3.6.173.0.130, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.6/release_notes/ocp_3_6_release_notes.html

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1507119 - oc apply and replace terminate upgrades if a resource update is contentious
• BZ - 1509859 - Certificate expiry playbook run error
• BZ - 1550680 - Running metrics playbook for cleanup with Ansible 2.2.3 fails about field 'args' including invalid value
• BZ - 1625885 - CVE-2018-14632 atomic-openshift: oc patch with json causes masterapi service crash

CVEs

• CVE-2018-14632

References

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