Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.0 packages and security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.0 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 4.11.

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):

• ignition: configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware products (CVE-2022-1706)
• prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)
• golang: math/big: uncontrolled memory consumption due to an unhandled overflow via Rat.SetString (CVE-2022-23772)
• golang: cmd/go: misinterpretation of branch names can lead to incorrect access control (CVE-2022-23773)
• golang: crypto/elliptic: IsOnCurve returns true for invalid field elements (CVE-2022-23806)
• golang: encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in Decode (CVE-2022-24675)
• golang: regexp: stack exhaustion via a deeply nested expression (CVE-2022-24921)
• golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)
• golang: crypto/elliptic: panic caused by oversized scalar (CVE-2022-28327)
• runc: incorrect handling of inheritable capabilities (CVE-2022-29162)

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.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.11/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.11 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.11 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.11 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2045880 - CVE-2022-21698 prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter
• BZ - 2053429 - CVE-2022-23806 golang: crypto/elliptic: IsOnCurve returns true for invalid field elements
• BZ - 2053532 - CVE-2022-23772 golang: math/big: uncontrolled memory consumption due to an unhandled overflow via Rat.SetString
• BZ - 2053541 - CVE-2022-23773 golang: cmd/go: misinterpretation of branch names can lead to incorrect access control
• BZ - 2064702 - CVE-2022-27191 golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server
• BZ - 2064857 - CVE-2022-24921 golang: regexp: stack exhaustion via a deeply nested expression
• BZ - 2077688 - CVE-2022-24675 golang: encoding/pem: fix stack overflow in Decode
• BZ - 2077689 - CVE-2022-28327 golang: crypto/elliptic: panic caused by oversized scalar
• BZ - 2082274 - CVE-2022-1706 ignition: configs are accessible from unprivileged containers in VMs running on VMware products
• BZ - 2086398 - CVE-2022-29162 runc: incorrect handling of inheritable capabilities

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1706
• CVE-2022-21698
• CVE-2022-23772
• CVE-2022-23773
• CVE-2022-23806
• CVE-2022-24675
• CVE-2022-24921
• CVE-2022-27191
• CVE-2022-28327
• CVE-2022-29162

References

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