Moderate: OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.2.0 security update

Topic

OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.2.0 is now available.

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 links in the References section.

Description

OpenShift sandboxed containers support for OpenShift Container Platform
provides users with built-in support for running Kata containers as an
additional, optional runtime.

This advisory contains an update for OpenShift sandboxed containers with enhancements, security updates, and bug fixes.

Space precludes documenting all of the updates to OpenShift sandboxed
containers 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/4.10/sandboxed_containers/sandboxed-containers-release-notes.html

Security Fixes:

• net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache (CVE-2021-44716)
• net/http/httputil: panic due to racy read of persistConn after handler panic (CVE-2021-36221)

For more details about the security issues, including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
pages listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/sandboxed_containers/upgrade-sandboxed-containers.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1995656 - CVE-2021-36221 golang: net/http/httputil: panic due to racy read of persistConn after handler panic
• BZ - 2030801 - CVE-2021-44716 golang: net/http: limit growth of header canonicalization cache
• KATA-1015 - 1.2: unused sourceImage field in KataConfig is confusing
• KATA-1019 - 1.2: annotations state Operator is only supported on OCP 4.8
• KATA-1027 - Newer kata-containers shimv2 (from kata-2.2.0 onwards) doesn't work with OCP.
• KATA-1118 - Attempt to uninstall while installation is in progress blocks
• KATA-1134 - Metrics doesn't work with the latest runtime cgroups improvements and simplifications
• KATA-1183 - security warning when creating daemonset for kata-monitor
• KATA-1184 - MachineConfigPool kata-oc is not removed with KataConfig CRD is deleted
• KATA-1189 - pods for kata-monitor daemonset don't start: SCC issues
• KATA-1190 - Operator not reconciling when node labels are changed
• KATA-1195 - Error: CreateContainer failed: Permission denied (os error 13): unknown
• KATA-1205 - openshift-sandboxed-containers-operator namespace not labelled for kata metrics
• KATA-1219 - kata-monitor will forget about a kata pod if an error happens while retrieving the metrics
• KATA-1222 - daemonset creation fails with reconciler error
• KATA-1224 - wrong channels and default version in internal build
• KATA-1225 - upgrade from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 failed
• KATA-1247 - kataconfig can't be applied due to syntax error
• KATA-1288 - changes to spec.kataMonitorImage are not reconciled
• KATA-1334 - Unable to loop mount file based image inside Kata container
• KATA-1340 - runtime installation shows no progress after creating kataconfig
• KATA-553 - Worker node is not being created when scaling up a cluster with the Kata operator installed
• KATA-588 - kata 2.0: stop a container spam crio logs continously
• KATA-817 - There are no logs coming from kata-containers agent
• KATA-1249 - use official pullspec for metrics daemonset as default in kataconfig CRD
• KATA-1383 - fix RHSA-2022:0658 (cyrus-sasl)

CVEs

• CVE-2021-36221
• CVE-2021-44716

References

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