Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.43 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.43 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.43 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 4.7.

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 container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.43. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0491

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/4.7/release_notes/ocp-4-7-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

  • containernetworking-cni: Arbitrary path injection via type field in CNI

configuration (CVE-2021-20206)

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.

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:4.7.43-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:45defc4b9ed55d539c50678387fe2d3e755c56f23afa210ea087b799d1138d48

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.7.43-s390x

The image digest is sha256:dc6363e8522ec44e852d2ab93209789a916b590d2185cffa1c4fb92d515376e9

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.7.43-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:2bd16240cbc87f4d532bfae6d280742d986459a058a1f91f55f5b0e937f2cc03

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 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/4.7/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 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/4.7/release_notes/ocp-4-7-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.7 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.7 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 1919391 - CVE-2021-20206 containernetworking-cni: Arbitrary path injection via type field in CNI configuration
  • BZ - 2010831 - container_runtime_crio_operations_latency_microseconds does not have quantile anymore
  • BZ - 2015427 - Backport CRI-O volume relabel skip for for super privileged containers
  • BZ - 2028967 - Whereabouts should reconcile stranded IP addresses
  • BZ - 2034355 - The CNO should implement the Whereabouts IP reconciliation cron job
  • BZ - 2042534 - Bump build-machinery-go for console-operator to pickup change in yaml-patch repository
  • BZ - 2043677 - [OVN]After reboot egress node, lr-policy-list was not correct, some duplicate records or missed internal IPs
  • BZ - 2046237 - aws-pod-identity-webhook go.mod version out of sync with build environment