Issued:
2021-07-27
Updated:
2021-07-27

RHSA-2021:2438 - Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.2 bug fix and security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.2 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.2 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 4.8.

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.

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.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.2. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2437

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/4.8/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

  • SSL/TLS: Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers (SWEET32) (CVE-2016-2183)

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

  • nodejs-y18n: prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2020-7774)

  • etcd: Large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method (CVE-2020-15106)

  • etcd: DoS in wal/wal.go (CVE-2020-15112)

  • etcd: directories created via os.MkdirAll are not checked for permissions (CVE-2020-15113)

  • etcd: gateway can include itself as an endpoint resulting in resource exhaustion and leads to DoS (CVE-2020-15114)

  • etcd: no authentication is performed against endpoints provided in the --endpoints flag (CVE-2020-15136)

  • jwt-go: access restriction bypass vulnerability (CVE-2020-26160)

  • nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2020-28469)

  • nodejs-lodash: ReDoS via the toNumber, trim and trimEnd functions (CVE-2020-28500)

  • golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag (CVE-2020-28852)

  • golang: crypto/elliptic: incorrect operations on the P-224 curve (CVE-2021-3114)

  • containernetworking-cni: Arbitrary path injection via type field in CNI configuration (CVE-2021-20206)

  • containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)

  • prometheus: open redirect under the /new endpoint (CVE-2021-29622)

  • golang: x/net/html: infinite loop in ParseFragment (CVE-2021-33194)

  • go.elastic.co/apm: leaks sensitive HTTP headers during panic (CVE-2021-22133)

Space precludes listing in detail the following additional CVEs fixes: (CVE-2021-27292), (CVE-2021-28092), (CVE-2021-29059), (CVE-2021-23382), (CVE-2021-26539), (CVE-2021-26540), (CVE-2021-23337), (CVE-2021-23362) and (CVE-2021-23368)

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:

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.2-x86_64

The image digest is ssha256:0e82d17ababc79b10c10c5186920232810aeccbccf2a74c691487090a2c98ebc

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.2-s390x

The image digest is sha256:a284c5c3fa21b06a6a65d82be1dc7e58f378aa280acd38742fb167a26b91ecb5

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.2-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:da989b8e28bccadbb535c2b9b7d3597146d14d254895cd35f544774f374cdd0f

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 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 Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 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/4.8/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform4.8x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power4.8ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE4.8s390x

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information