Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.4 packages and security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.13.4 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 4.13.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of [impact]. 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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.4. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3614

Security Fix(es):

• golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace

(CVE-2023-24540)

• golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2

requests (CVE-2022-41717)

• golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics

(CVE-2022-41724)

• golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive

resource consumption (CVE-2022-41725)

• golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory

allocation (CVE-2023-24534)

• golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from

excessive resource consumption (CVE-2023-24536)

• golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)
• golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters

(CVE-2023-24538)

• runc: volume mount race condition (regression of CVE 2019-19921)

(CVE-2023-27561)

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 4.13 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/4.13/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 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

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 - 2161274 - CVE-2022-41717 golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests
• BZ - 2175721 - CVE-2023-27561 runc: volume mount race condition (regression of CVE-2019-19921)
• BZ - 2178488 - CVE-2022-41725 golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 2178492 - CVE-2022-41724 golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics
• BZ - 2184481 - CVE-2023-24538 golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters
• BZ - 2184482 - CVE-2023-24536 golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 2184483 - CVE-2023-24534 golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation
• BZ - 2184484 - CVE-2023-24537 golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing
• BZ - 2196027 - CVE-2023-24540 golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace

CVEs

• CVE-2022-41717
• CVE-2022-41724
• CVE-2022-41725
• CVE-2023-24534
• CVE-2023-24536
• CVE-2023-24537
• CVE-2023-24538
• CVE-2023-24540
• CVE-2023-27561

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258