Issued:
2021-06-15
Updated:
2021-06-15

RHSA-2021:2286 - Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.16 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.16 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.16 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 4.7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 4.7.16. See the following advisories for the RPM packages for this release:

This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2287

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory. See the following Release Notes documentation for details about these changes:

This page is not included, but the link has been rewritten to point to the nearest parent document.https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/release_notes/ocp-4-7-rel ease-notes.html

This update fixes the following bugs among others:

Security Fix(es):

  • gogo/protobuf: plugin/unmarshal/unmarshal.go lacks certain index validation (CVE-2021-3121)

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.

Additional Changes:

This update also fixes several bugs. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 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/4.7/release_notes/ocp-4-7-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.7/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform4.7x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power4.7ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE4.7s390x

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