Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.54 security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.10.54 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 4.10.54. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:1153

Security Fix(es):

• goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be (CVE-2021-4238)
• golang: net/http: An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)

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 4.10, 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/4.10/release_notes/ocp-4-10-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:b13ee67469f7f85a1b1daf57424f3c7c02c3a188cb640dc6284742091a7e6d50

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:4c776be05c475ee885829444509258b486d79d8128e12d6d2263ab7cdef83ce8

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:2d4e0af6ca2afc8c10d210aa520aba602618f3fad4cb42636bddb57b1f0ce425

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:7cadaaf6e0f71645864963e6c47c75852ce68aff80c963dfba2ddf51c0b836c4

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 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/4.10/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.10 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.10 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.10 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
• BZ - 2161274 - CVE-2022-41717 golang: net/http: An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests
• OCPBUGS-3997 - [4.10] provisioning interface on master node not getting ipv4 dhcp ip address from bootstrap dhcp server on OCP IPI BareMetal install
• OCPBUGS-4341 - oc get dc fails when AllRequestBodies audit-profile is set in apiserver
• OCPBUGS-5977 - Implement LIST call chunking in openshift-sdn
• OCPBUGS-7657 - Editing Pipeline in the ocp console to get information error
• OCPBUGS-7741 - [release-4.11] fail early on missing node status envs
• OCPBUGS-7795 - thanos-ruler-user-workload-1 pod is getting repeatedly re-created after upgrade do 4.10.41
• OCPBUGS-7815 - [release-4.10] [AWS EFS] NFS mount disconnects and becomes unavailable.
• OCPBUGS-7827 - set default timeouts in etcdcli
• OCPBUGS-7831 - PTP BC: Unexpected openshift_ptp_clock_state metric added in FREERUN state after bringing down and up a ptp slave interface
• OCPBUGS-7997 - PTP 4.12 Regression - CLOCK REALTIME status is locked when physical interface is down
• OCPBUGS-8020 - Azure Disk volume is taking time to attach/detach

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4238
• CVE-2022-41717

References

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