Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.49 security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.49 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

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 4.8.49. There are no RPMs for this release.

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.[y]/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)
• grafana: Snapshot authentication bypass (CVE-2021-39226)
• go-getter: command injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-26945)
• go-getter: unsafe download (issue 1 of 3) (CVE-2022-30321)
• go-getter: unsafe download (issue 2 of 3) (CVE-2022-30322)
• go-getter: unsafe download (issue 3 of 3) (CVE-2022-30323)

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:4.8.49-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:ba6831ecc01cc2b3bfdd8f719e7a9384a877767fe90272a2becee7d7b6c9307c

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.49-s390x

The image digest is sha256:73f2aa3c7ebd443bf7c76e8434975f14e52e9312425cd62b9368697afe4542b0

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.49-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:cc18f0f9dae56a3e630f87c3054ca1d0b807d8524369735e7a0c47297833f661

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 - 1881882 - [RHCOS]Cannot access to the service's externalIP with egressIP from some pods
• BZ - 1959706 - QuorumGuardController_Error QuorumGuardControllerDegraded: the server could not find the requested resource
• BZ - 1991938 - Upgrading descheduler operator from 4.8 to 4.9 or installing latest 4.8 operator fails
• BZ - 2011063 - CVE-2021-39226 grafana: Snapshot authentication bypass
• BZ - 2064860 - ip-reconcile job is failing consistently
• BZ - 2092918 - CVE-2022-30321 go-getter: unsafe download (issue 1 of 3)
• BZ - 2092923 - CVE-2022-30322 go-getter: unsafe download (issue 2 of 3)
• BZ - 2092925 - CVE-2022-30323 go-getter: unsafe download (issue 3 of 3)
• BZ - 2092928 - CVE-2022-26945 go-getter: command injection vulnerability
• BZ - 2095210 - creating pods before sriovnetworknodepolicy sync up succeed will cause node unschedulable
• BZ - 2098252 - [4.8] Bootimage bump tracker
• BZ - 2105159 - crio umask sometimes set to 0000 [4.8]
• BZ - 2107342 - CVE-2022-30631 golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read
• BZ - 2112999 - sum_irate doesn't work in OCP 4.8
• BZ - 2113998 - NetworkManager didn't automatically renew the lease on the VLAN interface configured using nmstate
• BZ - 2115039 - [4.8] On updating cluster from 4.8.34=>4.8.43, cu has noticed stale iptables rules that cause SVC of type LB to fail after redeployment of pods
• OCPBUGS-604 - CI failing tests: Create namespace from install operators creates namespace from operator install page
• OCPBUGS-580 - [release-4.8] Gather ODF CephCluster resource status

CVEs

• CVE-2021-39226
• CVE-2022-0494
• CVE-2022-1353
• CVE-2022-2526
• CVE-2022-26945
• CVE-2022-29154
• CVE-2022-30321
• CVE-2022-30322
• CVE-2022-30323
• CVE-2022-30631

References

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