Issued:
2021-12-16
Updated:
2021-12-16

RHSA-2021:5186 - Critical: OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.52 security update

Synopsis

Critical: OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.52 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.6.52 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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.

Security Fix(es):

  • kube-reporting/hive: Incomplete fix for log4j CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 (CVE-2021-4125)

  • log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender (CVE-2021-4104)

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 4.6 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/4.6/release_notes/ocp-4-6-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform4.6x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power4.6ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE4.6s390x

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