Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.9 security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-20329   CVE-2023-0767  

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.9 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.9 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 4.12.

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 4.12.9. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1408

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):

  • mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated (CVE-2021-20329)

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.

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

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 sha256:96bf74ce789ccb22391deea98e0c5050c41b67cc17defbb38089d32226dba0b8

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:3212a1f7b5dd35e6fc1821d6479792d615fe7fb987c9c202b8bba6e310cb8234

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:82afa12a5c172ef53df9a9bb366c64210fdf164b03b1caf56e0f33ef3f2ad4d4

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:049dda19feec94ab7767e5426a46c24e40e15f8f6a3471f325bfcdd7977f90bb

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 - 1971033 - CVE-2021-20329 mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated
  • OCPBUGS-10241 - Backport request for 4.12 version - BZ#2116562
  • OCPBUGS-10289 - Broken link for Ansible tagging
  • OCPBUGS-10318 - node healthz server is missing in ovnk
  • OCPBUGS-10372 - Newly provisioned machines unable to join cluster
  • OCPBUGS-10490 - 4.12 cleanup: Move checkForStaleOVSInterfaces and related code to node.go
  • OCPBUGS-10496 - [release-4.12] Uploading large layers fails with "blob upload invalid"
  • OCPBUGS-10497 - aws: mismatch between RHCOS and AWS SDK regions
  • OCPBUGS-10505 - 4.1 born cluster fails to scale-up due to podman run missing `--authfile` flag
  • OCPBUGS-10514 - Risk cache warming takes too long on channel changes
  • OCPBUGS-10587 - Console shows x509 error when requesting token from oauth endpoint
  • OCPBUGS-6036 - Project dropdown order is not as smart as project list page order
  • OCPBUGS-676 - cluster-machine-approver doesn't ignore case for CSR hostnames
  • OCPBUGS-7445 - MTU migration configuration is cleaned up prematurely while in progress
  • OCPBUGS-7469 - GCP XPN should only be available with Tech Preview
  • OCPBUGS-7481 - [gcp][CORS-1988] "create manifests" without an existing "install-config.yaml" missing 4 YAML files in "<install dir>/openshift" which leads to "create cluster" failure
  • OCPBUGS-7650 - Redhat-operators are failing regularly due to startup probe timing out which in turn increases CPU/Mem usage on Master nodes
  • OCPBUGS-7800 - Project Access tab cannot differentiate between users and groups
  • OCPBUGS-8014 - add default noProxy config for Azure
  • OCPBUGS-8015 - Azure: VIP 168.63.129.16 should be noProxy to all clouds except Public
  • OCPBUGS-8339 - Bug with Red Hat Integration - 3scale - Managed Application Services causes operator-install-single-namespace.spec.ts to fail
  • OCPBUGS-9927 - Enable node healthz server for ovnk in CNO
  • OCPBUGS-2439 - "Failed to open directory, disabling udev device properties" in node-exporter logs