Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.4 bug fix 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 container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.4. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3612

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

Security Fix(es):

• net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)

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

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:e3fb8ace9881ae5428ae7f0ac93a51e3daa71fa215b5299cd3209e134cadfc9c

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:52f4c09586047c61465a24ceed2f5724024f5a5ef25da46e6078330f0dac08b2

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:24763eafbee5a36c699bff8f4103bcfcd8fec9ef0c7fe30c0ab5c208bdab7044

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:13b14f0514d24d241d40ebacac9f15f93acebc4a7849e4740df49e65e48af424

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

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 - 2178358 - CVE-2022-41723 net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding
• OCPBUGS-11116 - [RHOCP 4.13] MetalLB operator should be able to run other than default service account
• OCPBUGS-11768 - [4.13] RHCOS misses udev rules for GCE PD NVMe disks
• OCPBUGS-11824 - MetalLB operator doesnt show up when disconnected env is selected in operator hub
• OCPBUGS-13374 - [4.13] Forced BMH reboot fails when image URL has changed
• OCPBUGS-14024 - Master stuck in a creating/deleting loop when drop vmsize field from the CPMS providerSpec
• OCPBUGS-14298 - Upgrade to OCP 4.13.0 stuck due to machine-config error 'failed to run- nmstatectl: exit status 1'
• OCPBUGS-14357 - [4.13] configure-ovs blocks ssh access to the node when unhealthy
• OCPBUGS-14410 - It must be possible to append a piece of FRR configuration to what MetalLB renders
• OCPBUGS-14436 - Metric for control plane upgrade time
• OCPBUGS-14490 - HostedClusterConfigOperator doesn't check OperatorHub object in the Hosted Cluster
• OCPBUGS-14571 - Check permission and accessibility of non-default SCs on vSphere platform for CSI
• OCPBUGS-14589 - container_network* metrics stop reporting after container restart
• OCPBUGS-14620 - KCM is not aware of the AWS Region ap-southeast-3
• OCPBUGS-14635 - Maximum Number Of Egress IPs Supported
• OCPBUGS-14651 - disable debug pporf with unauthenticated port
• OCPBUGS-14672 - Should update with --include-local-oci-catalogs for --oci-registries-config options
• OCPBUGS-14801 - KCM is not aware of the AWS Region ap-southeast-3
• OCPBUGS-14830 - MetalLB has a bad CSV for 4.13.3. Invalid service account
• OCPBUGS-14850 - Unable to do post-copy migration
• OCPBUGS-14860 - GCP XPN Private Cluster fails with no public zone
• OCPBUGS-14872 - Hypershift operator should honor 'hostedcluster.spec.configuration.ingress.loadBalancer.platform.aws.type'
• OCPBUGS-14895 - Do not fail creating cgroups
• OCPBUGS-14981 - place holder for log linking in 4.13.4
• OCPBUGS-8681 - [GWAPI] the gateway pod and service are still there after deleting gateway resource

CVEs

• CVE-2022-4304
• CVE-2022-4450
• CVE-2022-41723
• CVE-2023-0215
• CVE-2023-0361
• CVE-2023-24329
• CVE-2023-24540

References

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