Low: OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.40 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Low: OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.40 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

Security Fix(es):

  • golang.org/x/crypto: Processing of crafted ssh-ed25519 public keys allows for panic (CVE-2020-9283)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

  • Gather image registry config (backport to 4.3) (BZ#1836815)
  • Builds fail after running postCommit script if OCP cluster is configured with a container registry whitelist (BZ#1849176)
  • Login with OpenShift not working after cluster upgrade (BZ#1852429)
  • Limit the size of gathered federated metrics from alerts in Insights Operator (BZ#1874018)
  • [4.3] Storage operator stops reconciling when going Upgradeable=False on v1alpha1 CRDs (BZ#1879110)
  • [release 4.3] OpenShift APIs become unavailable for more than 15 minutes after one of master nodes went down(OAuth) (BZ#1880293)

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata
as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)

$ oc adm release info
quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.3.40-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:9ff90174a170379e90a9ead6e0d8cf6f439004191f80762764a5ca3dbaab01dc

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info
quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.3.40-s390x
The image digest is sha256:605ddde0442e604cfe2d6bd1541ce48df5956fe626edf9cc95b1fca75d231b64

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info
quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.3.40-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:d3c9e391c145338eae3feb7f6a4e487dadc8139a353117d642fe686d277bcccc

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 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/4.3/release_notes/ocp-4-3-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.3/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1804533 - CVE-2020-9283 golang.org/x/crypto: Processing of crafted ssh-ed25519 public keys allows for panic
  • BZ - 1836815 - Gather image registry config (backport to 4.3)
  • BZ - 1849176 - Builds fail after running postCommit script if OCP cluster is configured with a container registry whitelist
  • BZ - 1874018 - Limit the size of gathered federated metrics from alerts in Insights Operator
  • BZ - 1874399 - [DR] etcd-member-recover.sh fails to pull image with unauthorized
  • BZ - 1879110 - [4.3] Storage operator stops reconciling when going Upgradeable=False on v1alpha1 CRDs

CVEs

References