Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.19 bug fix and security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-17419   CVE-2022-25147   CVE-2023-25652   CVE-2023-25815   CVE-2023-29007  

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.19 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.19 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 4.12.19. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:3286

Security Fix(es):

  • dns: Denial of Service (DoS) (CVE-2018-17419)

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 sha256:41fd42cc8b9f86fc86cc8763dcf27e976299ff632a336d393b8e643bd8a5f967

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:13666e036043e0d2283890259861a8b8132e6afc818973a2f8bab28d9947cd94

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:00b61dd3ae8d8da28eb7a5385eb1c7f200efa73023e44b1c220a7d041ca1bad1

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:3d73e42724be8f53f8511df17ef900225305226d37397ffde3385cbc6c55a132

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

Fixes

  • BZ - 2188523 - CVE-2018-17419 dns: Denial of Service (DoS)
  • OCPBUGS-10275 - [4.12] Lazily unmount /proc/cmdline
  • OCPBUGS-12787 - OLM CatalogSources in guest cluster cannot pull images if pre-GA
  • OCPBUGS-13530 - Root device hints should accept by-path device alias
  • OCPBUGS-13599 - OSD clusters' Ingress health checks & routes fail after swapping application router between public and private
  • OCPBUGS-13719 - aws-ebs-csi-driver-operator ServiceAccount does not include the HCP pull-secret in its imagePullSecrets
  • OCPBUGS-13739 - Failed to create STS resources on AWS GovCloud regions using ccoctl
  • OCPBUGS-13743 - [4.12] container_network* metrics fail to report
  • OCPBUGS-13750 - "pipelines-as-code-pipelinerun-go" configMap is not been used for the Go repository
  • OCPBUGS-13757 - The MCD has a non-functional pivot command that should be deprecated
  • OCPBUGS-13760 - Yum Config Manager Not Found
  • OCPBUGS-13821 - Excessive memory consumption of aws-ebs-csi-driver-node pods (for 4.12)
  • OCPBUGS-6848 - Service name search ability while creating the Route from console
  • OCPBUGS-7439 - Egress service does not handle invalid nodeSelectors correctly
  • OCPBUGS-7619 - Search page: LazyActionMenus are shown below Add/Remove from navigation button
  • OCPBUGS-7924 - Developer - Topology : 'Filter by resource' drop-down i18n misses