Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.45 bug fix and security update

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.45 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.9.45 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 4.9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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 4.9.45. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:5878

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/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

  • openshift: oauth-serving-cert configmap contains cluster certificate

private key (CVE-2022-2403)

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:4.9.45-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:8ab373599e8a010dffb9c7ed45e01c00cb06a7857fe21de102d978be4738b2ec

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.9.45-s390x

The image digest is sha256:1dde8a7134081c82012a812e014daca4cba1095630e6d0c74b51da141d472984

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.9.45-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:ec1fac628bec05eb6425c2ae9dcd3fca120cd1a8678155350bb4c65813cfc30e

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 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/4.9/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 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/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.9/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.9 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.9 for RHEL 8 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.9 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2009024 - Unable to complete cluster destruction, some ports are left over
  • BZ - 2055494 - console operator should report Upgradeable False when SAN-less certs are used
  • BZ - 2083554 - post 1.23 rebase: regression in service-load balancer reliability
  • BZ - 2087021 - configure-ovs.sh fails, blocking new RHEL node from being scaled up on cluster without manual reboot
  • BZ - 2088539 - Openshift route URLs starting with double slashes stopped working after update to 4.8.33 - curl version problems
  • BZ - 2091806 - Cluster upgrade stuck due to "resource deletions in progress"
  • BZ - 2095320 - [4.9] Bootimage bump tracker
  • BZ - 2097157 - [4.9z] During ovnkube-node restart all host conntrack entries are flushed, leading to traffic disruption
  • BZ - 2100786 - [OCP 4.9] Ironic cannot match "wwn" rootDeviceHint for a multipath device
  • BZ - 2101664 - disabling ipv6 router advertisements using "all" does not disable it on secondary interfaces
  • BZ - 2101959 - CVE-2022-2403 openshift: oauth-serving-cert configmap contains cluster certificate private key
  • BZ - 2103982 - [4.9] AWS EBS CSI driver stuck removing EBS volumes - GetDeviceMountRefs check failed
  • BZ - 2105277 - NetworkPolicies: ovnkube-master pods crashing due to panic: "invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference"
  • BZ - 2105453 - Node reboot causes duplicate persistent volumes
  • BZ - 2105654 - egressIP panics with nil pointer dereference
  • BZ - 2105663 - APIRequestCount does not identify some APIs removed in 4.9
  • BZ - 2106655 - Kubelet slowly leaking memory and pods eventually unable to start
  • BZ - 2108538 - [4.9.z backport] br-ex not created due to default bond interface having a different mac address than expected
  • BZ - 2108619 - ClusterVersion history pruner does not always retain initial completed update entry