Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.41 bug fix and security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.41 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 4.8.

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 4.8.41. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:2270

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/4.8/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• openshift/router: route hijacking attack via crafted HAProxy

configuration file (CVE-2022-1677)

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:4.8.41-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:4ebcb3aea63d4acbb92118d3ae7ed08d3ebb1a66e7f79fddbb4da74883a12d0a

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.41-s390x

The image digest is sha256:5ed0fc5b89e3ec257db50f936f788492211e4de4a741f930191ab2d3bc7ceec3

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.41-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:908ec3688cc152b15faaea3f71bb4ba59565df60e9846f08fcd15a6c2b43274a

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 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/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 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/4.8/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.8 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.8 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2057544 - Cancel rpm-ostree transaction after failed rebase
• BZ - 2058674 - whereabouts IPAM CNI ip-reconciler cronjob specification requires hostnetwork, api-int lb usage & proper backoff
• BZ - 2062655 - [4.8.z backport] cluster scaling new nodes ovs-configuration fails on all new nodes
• BZ - 2070762 - [4.8z] WebScale: duplicate ecmp next hop error caused by multiple of the same gateway IPs in ovnkube cache
• BZ - 2074053 - Internal registries with a big number of images delay pod creation due to recursive SELinux file context relabeling
• BZ - 2074680 - csv_succeeded metric not present in olm-operator for all successful CSVs
• BZ - 2076211 - CVE-2022-1677 openshift/router: route hijacking attack via crafted HAProxy configuration file
• BZ - 2077004 - Bump to latest available 1.21.11 k8s
• BZ - 2077370 - [4.8.z] NetworkPolicy tests are failing on metal IPv6
• BZ - 2077765 - (release-4.8) Gather namespace names with overlapping UID ranges
• BZ - 2078477 - Latest ose-jenkins-agent-base:v4.9.0 image fails to start on OpenShift due to FIPS error
• BZ - 2084259 - [4.8] OCP ignores STOPSIGNAL in Dockerfile and sends SIGTERM
• BZ - 2088196 - Redfish set boot device failed for node in OCP 4.8 latest RC

CVEs

• CVE-2018-25032
• CVE-2022-1271
• CVE-2022-1677
• CVE-2022-21426
• CVE-2022-21434
• CVE-2022-21443
• CVE-2022-21476
• CVE-2022-21496

References

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