Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.48 bug fix and security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.9.48 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 4.9.48. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:6319

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):

• grafana: Snapshot authentication bypass (CVE-2021-39226)

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:4.9.48-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:fe63bce8c63031a17f08feed4fae704499b749502cb3d51f5df7d8eb002e8e55

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.9.48-s390x

The image digest is sha256:cc5c418771b024b65af22f306c24483421c2e3b351004df1948dc3e9af25b424

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.9.48-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:162a33695defc9acd595451c13ec96eae4557642d6a51521f2aeac22f1c02b8c

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 - 1996013 - sriov-device-plugin cannot found the VF
• BZ - 2011063 - CVE-2021-39226 grafana: Snapshot authentication bypass
• BZ - 2096508 - Pod stuck in Terminating, runc init process frozen
• BZ - 2097724 - Change Ping source spec.jsonData (deprecated) field to spec.data
• BZ - 2101092 - Reserved port 9104 prevents a roll out of new cluster-network-operator Pod during SNO 4.10 upgrade
• BZ - 2101794 - On-prem loadbalancer ports conflict with kube node port range
• OCPBUGS-420 - OVS-Configure doesn't iterate connection names containing spaces correctly
• OCPBUGS-572 - Machine Controller stuck with Terminated Instances while Provisioning on AWS
• OCPBUGS-410 - Detect unsupported amount of workloads before rendering a lazy or crashing topology
• OCPBUGS-508 - CI failing tests: Create namespace from install operators creates namespace from operator install page
• OCPBUGS-443 - [release-4.9] Gather ODF CephCluster resource status
• OCPBUGS-459 - Default catalogs fails liveness/readiness probes

CVEs

• CVE-2021-39226
• CVE-2022-0494
• CVE-2022-1353
• CVE-2022-2526
• CVE-2022-29154

References

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