Issued:
2022-01-05
Updated:
2022-01-05

RHSA-2021:5208 - Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.25 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.25 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.25 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.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.25. See the following advisory for the container images for this release: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:5209

Security Fix(es):

  • haproxy: does not ensure that the scheme and path portions of a URI have the expected characters (CVE-2021-39240)
  • haproxy: an HTTP method name may contain a space followed by the name of a protected resource (CVE-2021-39241)
  • haproxy: it can lead to a situation with an attacker-controlled HTTP Host header because a mismatch between Host and authority is mishandled (CVE-2021-39242)
  • haproxy: request smuggling attack or response splitting via duplicate content-length header (CVE-2021-40346)

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

Updated Packages

  • ostree-devel-2020.7-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • ostree-libs-debuginfo-2020.7-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • openshift-hyperkube-4.8.0-202112150047.p0.gb4b4813.assembly.stream.el8.ppc64le.rpm
  • haproxy-debugsource-2.2.13-2.el8.s390x.rpm
  • ostree-libs-debuginfo-2020.7-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • ostree-2020.7-6.el8_4.src.rpm
  • ostree-devel-2020.7-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm
  • openshift-hyperkube-4.8.0-202112150047.p0.gb4b4813.assembly.stream.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • ostree-grub2-2020.7-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • ostree-libs-debuginfo-2020.7-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm
  • openshift-hyperkube-4.8.0-202112150047.p0.gb4b4813.assembly.stream.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • ostree-2020.7-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • ostree-debugsource-2020.7-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • openshift-4.8.0-202112150047.p0.gb4b4813.assembly.stream.el8.src.rpm
  • openshift-hyperkube-4.8.0-202112150047.p0.gb4b4813.assembly.stream.el8.s390x.rpm
  • ostree-grub2-2020.7-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • openshift-kuryr-cni-4.8.0-202112131630.p0.g839864c.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm
  • openshift-kuryr-common-4.8.0-202112131630.p0.g839864c.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm
  • ostree-debugsource-2020.7-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm
  • ostree-libs-2020.7-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • openshift-4.8.0-202112150047.p0.gb4b4813.assembly.stream.el7.src.rpm
  • haproxy-2.2.13-2.el8.src.rpm
  • openshift-kuryr-4.8.0-202112131630.p0.g839864c.assembly.stream.el8.src.rpm
  • ostree-devel-2020.7-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • ostree-debuginfo-2020.7-6.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
  • haproxy-debugsource-2.2.13-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • openshift-kuryr-controller-4.8.0-202112131630.p0.g839864c.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm
  • ostree-libs-2020.7-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • haproxy-debuginfo-2.2.13-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • ostree-debuginfo-2020.7-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm
  • ostree-2020.7-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm
  • ostree-debugsource-2020.7-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • haproxy-debugsource-2.2.13-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm
  • ostree-libs-2020.7-6.el8_4.s390x.rpm
  • haproxy-2.2.13-2.el7.src.rpm
  • ostree-debuginfo-2020.7-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • ostree-2020.7-6.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-kuryr-kubernetes-4.8.0-202112131630.p0.g839864c.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm

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