Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.23 bug fix and security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-1192   CVE-2023-2163   CVE-2023-30551   CVE-2023-39325  

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.23 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.13.23 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 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

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7325

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):

  • rekor: compressed archives can result in OOM conditions (CVE-2023-30551)
  • 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 4.13 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:ca556d3494d08765c90481f15dd965995371168ea7ee7a551000bed4481931c8

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:77dde49307e9fd00cca6a152f4629039f00ac8c2a729811decb007c4fce73ddb

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:10c619d4139ee72c7e3a9007b0d5bcca1517f86a14c7e6e5e74cfcf977f2ada6

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:b2e0ff69918b845d1a1a6c503b764facbfb34afffc64b5dcfb798a385a8f4af5

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 - 2196656 - CVE-2023-30551 rekor: compressed archives can result in OOM conditions
  • BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
  • OCPBUGS-19078 - [4.13] No suitable virtual media device found for Cisco UCS Blade
  • OCPBUGS-22815 - Regenerating the machine config operator certificates can panic on vSphere
  • OCPBUGS-22920 - jsonnet dependencies are unpinned in release version
  • OCPBUGS-22939 - [azure] missing instance type validation check under defaultMachinePlatform
  • OCPBUGS-22953 - [release-4.13] Insights operator does not respect disableInsightsAlerts
  • OCPBUGS-23044 - [4.13] CEO prevents member deletion during revision rollout
  • OCPBUGS-23065 - [release-4.13] Remove collapsible toggle for conditional update risk details
  • OCPBUGS-23072 - pipe can hide errors when using ip command
  • OCPBUGS-23116 - Should reference configmaps instead of secrets
  • OCPBUGS-23141 - Specify google cloud CLI to version 447.0.0
  • OCPBUGS-23160 - [release-4.13] MetalLB controller doesn't preserve internal state after reboot