Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.29 bug fix and security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-20329   CVE-2023-5388   CVE-2023-39325  

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.29 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available 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 4.13.29. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0195

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):

  • golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487) (CVE-2023-39325)
  • mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated (CVE-2021-20329)

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.

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 sha256:9c4a4471bb93ab11d255925535ff719742cafa8ae06d622b870133787a72abc3

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:80c287d6ee8baa959462ddb58f23c89cd4d37e54350813de09ef2b2704519057

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:0b087b1c8f1af8c2339fd40c57e2b15d3bb5c4c761ed04b6e67dc3b9fff7be19

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:e0c45710ebff1bcd72c694f3bac3de92074163aa1db4b7a03d1a81cb53b79888

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 - 1971033 - CVE-2021-20329 mongo-go-driver: specific cstrings input may not be properly validated
  • BZ - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
  • OCPBUGS-19658 - The KUBELET_NODE_IPS does not reflect in the kubelet service after the dual-stack conversion
  • OCPBUGS-23483 - Silencing of Alert in Developer Console not working until OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
  • OCPBUGS-25988 - Bump to kubernetes 1.26.12