Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.5 security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.5 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 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 4.12.5. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0889

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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS

(CVE-2021-38561)

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 4.12 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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests may be found at https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags.

The sha values for the release are
(For x86_64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:fd65cebce150bac3c622e30e7f762d3173575ae3541b3a7648819cb63e9b63a4

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:937b52bf3320896ec90da1444ff76c8c037d0a8631f541ca6950a847aaef7ca1

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:2da6b8a9ca11dbec1a8bf5dd8e49f52a96d09b7e474fe109ad85fc0ba071747b

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:d9001785543f8855ea653493aea8c8c6a3ca029565e8d0e282cfa11b06966239

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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 CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2060978 - Facing issues while binding role to Group
• BZ - 2100495 - CVE-2021-38561 golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS
• OCPBUGS-2442 - OCP 4.12 on Z Installations fail when FIPS=TRUE installation option specified for OCP 4.12.0-EC.4 and nightly builds after
• OCPBUGS-4072 - Endless rerender loop and a stuck browser on the add and topology page when SBO is installed
• OCPBUGS-5569 - [OVN] DHCP timeouts on Azure arm64, install fails
• OCPBUGS-5953 - ip-reconciler removes the overlappingrangeipreservations whether the pod is alive or not [backport 4.12]
• OCPBUGS-5992 - [azure] Fail to create master node with vm size in standardNVSv4Family
• OCPBUGS-6666 - [UI] When OCP and ODF are upgraded, refresh web console pop-up doesn't appear after ODF upgrade resulting in dashboard crash
• OCPBUGS-6671 - Broken secret created while starting a Pipeline
• OCPBUGS-6782 - [release-4.12] gather Machine objects
• OCPBUGS-6816 - Repositories list does not show the running pipelinerun as last pipelinerun
• OCPBUGS-6831 - Console crashes when pinnedResources is null (which could be the case starting 4.13)
• OCPBUGS-6833 - [release-4.12] Include openshift_apps_deploymentconfigs_strategy_total to recent_metrics
• OCPBUGS-6873 - The dropdown list component will be covered by deployment details page on Topology page
• OCPBUGS-6887 - Show Tag label and tag name if tag is detected in repository PipelineRun list and details page
• OCPBUGS-6935 - [4.12] Degraded etcd on assisted-installer installation- bootstrap etcd is not removed properly
• OCPBUGS-6943 - ovs-configuration.service fails - Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this connection
• OCPBUGS-6966 - [Openshift Pipelines] Description of parameters are not shown in pipelinerun description page
• OCPBUGS-6991 - Irrelevant vsphere platform data is required
• OCPBUGS-7108 - Default CatalogSource aren't always reverted to default settings
• OCPBUGS-7214 - [4.12] OCP 4.12 does not support launching SGX enclaves
• OCPBUGS-7331 - [4.12] aws-ebs-csi-driver-operator crash loops with HC proxy configured
• OCPBUGS-7373 - [release-4.12] fail early on missing node status envs
• OCPBUGS-7409 - set default timeouts in etcdcli
• OCPBUGS-7437 - Webhook Secret (1 of 2) is not removed when Knative Service is deleted
• OCPBUGS-7458 - thanos-ruler-user-workload-1 pod is getting repeatedly re-created after upgrade do 4.10.41
• OCPBUGS-7471 - Right border radius is 0 for the pipeline visualization wrapper in dark mode
• OCPBUGS-7506 - [CI-Watcher] e2e issue with tests: Interacting with CatalogSource page
• OCPBUGS-7556 - OLM downstream utest fails due to new release-XX+1 branch creation
• OCPBUGS-7633 - Fix disaster recovery test [sig-etcd][Feature:DisasterRecovery][Disruptive] [Feature:EtcdRecovery] Cluster should restore itself after quorum loss [Serial]
• OCPBUGS-7705 - ART having trouble building OLM images because of v0.0.0 dependencies
• OCPBUGS-7751 - [4.12] fix gofmt check issue in network-metrics-daemon

CVEs

• CVE-2021-38561

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html