Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.41 bug fix and security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-39325   CVE-2023-44487  

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.41 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.41 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 [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 4.12.41. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6128

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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

  • golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (Rapid Reset Attack) (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 4.12 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 sha256:59c93fdfff4ecca2ca6d6bb0ec722bca2bb08152252ae10ce486a9fc80c82dcf

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:0335f61734157940c643422460317372128b2eb8ed1523729a150e3600c2f7b7

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:fc6c5ab43a800cde1afbdf1a63f24a19f49282e51461c936b3a096b453956597

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:46da6987f277e8837e0d7223bfa9bbe646173021c374809b4f5021051d573782

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.12 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 9 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.12 for RHEL 8 s390x
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 9 aarch64
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.12 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
  • OCPBUGS-18644 - Hard coded region references remain in installer
  • OCPBUGS-18681 - Pod sometimes doesn?t work as expected when it has the same name with previous pods on OVN network cluster
  • OCPBUGS-19008 - [4.12] Metal Day-1 When No Hostname is Provided by Either rDNS or DHCP, All Hosts are Named "localhost".
  • OCPBUGS-19549 - OCP 4.12 fails to create MachineSet on Azure platform
  • OCPBUGS-20197 - [4.13] Rollout of ovnk pods is taking more time
  • OCPBUGS-20241 - OCP upgrade 4.12 to 4.13 fails because some pods can't connect to k8s default svc 172.30.0.1
  • OCPBUGS-20248 - Cross-namespace template processing is not being tested
  • OCPBUGS-20291 - oc adm inspect does not truncate files when overwriting
  • OCPBUGS-20551 - [RHEL]Host lost connection during upgrade for RHEL worker
  • OCPBUGS-21727 - Unnecessary API calls if TektonConfig is not minimal
  • OCPBUGS-21731 - TaskRun duration chart legend shows only 4 taskruns
  • OCPBUGS-22247 - [ Azure ]not able to deploy machine with publicIp:true
  • OCPBUGS-22268 - Cluster Resource Override Operator should not override resources while removing finalizers
  • OCPBUGS-22288 - Passwords printed in log messages