Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.0 security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.13.0 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.

Security Fix(es):

• mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated

(CVE-2021-20329)

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

(CVE-2021-38561)

• golang: net/http: 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

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/4.13/release_notes/ocp-4-13-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.13 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.13 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.13 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1971033 - CVE-2021-20329 mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated
• BZ - 2100495 - CVE-2021-38561 golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS
• BZ - 2161274 - CVE-2022-41717 golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests
• OCPBUGS-10561 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.13.0 metadata release

CVEs

• CVE-2021-20329
• CVE-2021-38561
• CVE-2022-2990
• CVE-2022-3259
• CVE-2022-41717
• CVE-2022-41723
• CVE-2022-41724
• CVE-2022-41725
• CVE-2023-0056
• CVE-2023-0229
• CVE-2023-0778
• CVE-2023-25577
• CVE-2023-25725

References

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