Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.58 bug fix and security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-6596   CVE-2023-39325   CVE-2024-21626  

Synopsis

Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.58 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.58 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 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 4.11.58. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:0684

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):

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

work "Rapid Reset" (CVE-2023-39325)

A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about the Rapid Reset flaw is available in the References section.

  • runc: file descriptor leak "Leaky Vessels" (CVE-2024-21626)

A Red Hat Security Bulletin which addresses further details about the Leaky Vessels flaw is available in the References section.

  • openshift: incomplete fix for Rapid Reset (CVE-2023-6596)

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 sha256:60091111bfb629d995977e4a91f090a2306e5be609d3a2652f31280ce0eea1f3

(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is sha256:aa4aa718213730ef9242358bfa0366dceb3d53c0b5cd988f210325f0bd17fed9

(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is sha256:4f27cad0a41d1e8f95bc87992bf029ceb58ae20cfc9d1418a7fa4404296d20be

(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is sha256:7d20547a3a60ee4f46cf4b1e7637f7faa0b5314acfe935cc1c9b7e0a41cc7625

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 - 2243296 - CVE-2023-39325 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream resets can cause excessive work (CVE-2023-44487)
  • BZ - 2253521 - CVE-2023-6596 openshift: incomplete fix for Rapid Reset (CVE-2023-44487/CVE-2023-39325)
  • BZ - 2258725 - CVE-2024-21626 runc: file descriptor leak
  • OCPBUGS-26405 - Specifying non-existen secret for API namedCertificates renders inconsistent config and causes kube-apiserver crash-loop
  • OCPBUGS-27231 - Increase health probe for openshift apiserver
  • OCPBUGS-28749 - Error occurs during a build with a buildconfig from a git repo that has Nexus LFS files inside
  • OCPBUGS-28955 - openshift/csi-driver-shared-resource - replace 'coreydaley' with 'sayan-biswas' in OWNERS file
  • OCPBUGS-28960 - openshift/csi-driver-shared-resource-operator - replace 'coreydaley' with 'sayan-biswas' in OWNERS file