Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.52 bug fix and security update

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.52 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.52 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 4.11.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5717

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/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

  • distribution/distribution: DoS from malicious API request (CVE-2023-2253)
  • golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)

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 4.11 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/4.11/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/release_notes/ocp-4-11-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 sha256:39d2479528d17b7b8a2238af4b0dfd69658b0f33edb416ed1ffb72bf6911befa

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:f39ea313651e183d91a16f2037069bb15693897f68b625c0ad7ac89eaa7c433e

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:9a11483be22643151037d96a9d895b8898f389e48aebff86d85b0d47979a3241

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:639348d182763804c625b0e8fde4d0fe5817f77e57a687d6fd2370a615233df9

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.11 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.11 for RHEL 8 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.11 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2189886 - CVE-2023-2253 distribution/distribution: DoS from malicious API request
  • BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
  • OCPBUGS-15084 - EgressNetworkPolicy DNS resolution does not fall back to TCP for truncated responses
  • OCPBUGS-18129 - [4.11] [sig-arch] events should not repeat pathologically - readiness probe errors
  • OCPBUGS-18486 - [Openshift Pipelines] Stop option for pipelinerun is not working
  • OCPBUGS-19409 - Observe Logs tab isn't shown in Developer perspective on OCP 4.11
  • OCPBUGS-19946 - [release-4.11] Extend workload-info gatherer to collect image repository info
  • OCPBUGS-494 - Switch libvirt VM's to vnc graphic mode
  • OCPBUGS-20217 - admission web hook probe error when deploy sample KSVC based app and then modifying icon
  • OCPBUGS-20309 - unit test job failure rates are high in oc
  • OCPBUGS-20576 - Update DOWNSTREAM_OWNERS in cloud-provider-openstack