Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.8 security and packages update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.8 security and packages update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.6.8 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs.

An update for ironic-images, openshift, openshift-ansible, openshift-clients, and python-eventlet, cri-o, openshift-kuryr, python-pyroute2 is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6. This release also includes a security update for for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.

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.

Security Fix(es):

• kubernetes: Secret leaks in kube-controller-manager when using vSphere Provider (CVE-2020-8563)
  

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.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.8. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5259

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 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/4.6/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 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/4.6/release_notes/ocp-4-6-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.6 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.6 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1886635 - CVE-2020-8563 kubernetes: Secret leaks in kube-controller-manager when using vSphere Provider
• BZ - 1902559 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.6.0 rpm release

CVEs

• CVE-2020-8563

References

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