Important: OpenShift Virtualization 4.12.5 security and bug fix update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization release 4.12.5 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 Important. 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

OpenShift Virtualization is Red Hat's virtualization solution designed for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

This advisory contains OpenShift Virtualization 4.12.5 images.

Security Fix(es):

• openshift: OCP & FIPS mode (CVE-2023-3089)
• golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• [4.12] must-gather doesn't collect ruletebles (BZ#2208641)
• nft rules are not collected if the VMs are running in the node where must-gather is running (BZ#2214454)
• [cnv-4.12] kubevirt should allow setting cluster-wide virt-launcher runtimeclass (BZ#2217913)
• USB-redirection regression (BZ#2221222)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2027959 - [RFE] virt-launcher pod of Windows VM stuck in terminating state, no button in the UI to force power off
• BZ - 2182056 - Cloned VM should not use the same PVC of the source VM
• BZ - 2196027 - CVE-2023-24540 golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace
• BZ - 2208641 - [4.12] must-gather doesn't collect ruletebles
• BZ - 2209318 - [4.12.z] VM connected to a VLAN is also receiving packets from VLAN 1
• BZ - 2209848 - OpenShift Virtualization Overview page shows no metrics for "All Projects"
• BZ - 2212085 - CVE-2023-3089 openshift: OCP & FIPS mode
• BZ - 2214454 - nft rules are not collected if the VMs are running in the node where must-gather is running
• BZ - 2216447 - must-gather: Multiple empty files under vms/<vm-name> if the VM was live migrated
• BZ - 2216449 - must-gather is using unavailable brctl command
• BZ - 2217913 - [cnv-4.12] kubevirt should allow setting cluster-wide virt-launcher runtimeclass
• BZ - 2220843 - [4.12]Missing StorageProfile defaults for IBM and AWS EFS CSI provisioners
• BZ - 2221222 - USB-redirection regression
• BZ - 2222011 - [4.12]DataImportCron Garbage Collection can mistakenly delete latest PVC

CVEs

• CVE-2020-24736
• CVE-2022-4304
• CVE-2022-41723
• CVE-2023-0215
• CVE-2023-0286
• CVE-2023-1667
• CVE-2023-2283
• CVE-2023-2828
• CVE-2023-3089
• CVE-2023-24329
• CVE-2023-24540
• CVE-2023-26604

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2023-001