Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.4 bug fix and security update

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.14.4 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 4.14.

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7473

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/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive

work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)

• opentelemetry: DoS vulnerability in otelhttp (CVE-2023-45142)

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 4.14 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/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 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/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-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:e6e1d90b492d50438034e6edb46bdafa6c86ae3b80ef3328685912d89681fdee

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:240caa73646c1ff4ee044bf0d885efaffd27eb3932a2aa299031a1f5f94216a9

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:16a57a40e0d10fd4b53da7de6a8cfdf793af3181f656b65471d989800f6d833b

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:c04f00535968e6007f8403c7d279c272c0211695008f889fefb74e47a7f9222f

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 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/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.14 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.14 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.14 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)
• BZ - 2245180 - CVE-2023-45142 opentelemetry: DoS vulnerability in otelhttp
• OCPBUGS-19678 - Validate Cluster Name in HostedCluster Controller
• OCPBUGS-21761 - Backport aws-pod-identity-webhook to 4.14
• OCPBUGS-21868 - Vsphere IPI installation is getting failed with panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
• OCPBUGS-22688 - Bump FCOS image to latest stable
• OCPBUGS-22774 - There is no clear error log when create sts cluster with KMS key without install role in it
• OCPBUGS-22996 - [release-4.14] Gather StorageClass Resource
• OCPBUGS-23150 - mapi_current_pending_csr metric firing when non-mapi CSRs are present
• OCPBUGS-23210 - [4.14.z] [IBM ROKS] cluster-storage-operator does not set upgradeable=True
• OCPBUGS-23212 - The InstallPlan has two duplicate items in the clusterServiceVersionNames array, which causes duplicate items to displayed on multiple pages in the console.
• OCPBUGS-23315 - Set automountServiceAccountToken to false for network-node-identity deployment in Hypershift
• OCPBUGS-23392 - [4.14] Wrong IP for deploying IPv6 BMCs
• OCPBUGS-23393 - [4.14] IPv6 BMC cannot reach image on provisioning network
• OCPBUGS-23408 - Error occurs during a build with a buildconfig from a git repo that has Nexus LFS files inside
• OCPBUGS-23423 - Console: Cannot Edit Shipwright Build
• OCPBUGS-23450 - [4.14 placeholder] High memory usage on one of the ovnkube-master pods on some clusters
• OCPBUGS-23505 - eventlet dependency breaks python-dns in RHEL 9.3 rebase
• OCPBUGS-23508 - [release-4.14] OLM's e2e suite uses CVO managed namespaces
• OCPBUGS-283 - Traffic leaving out of Openshift nodes with Pod/Node IP instead of Egress IP

CVEs

• CVE-2022-4285
• CVE-2022-40897
• CVE-2022-44638
• CVE-2023-2602
• CVE-2023-2603
• CVE-2023-3961
• CVE-2023-4091
• CVE-2023-4806
• CVE-2023-4813
• CVE-2023-29406
• CVE-2023-29409
• CVE-2023-29491
• CVE-2023-31130
• CVE-2023-39318
• CVE-2023-39319
• CVE-2023-39321
• CVE-2023-39322
• CVE-2023-39325
• CVE-2023-42669
• CVE-2023-44487
• CVE-2023-45142

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important