Issued:: 2022-02-28
Updated:: 2022-02-28

RHSA-2022:0655 - Low: OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.23 bug fix and security update

Synopsis

Low: OpenShift Container Platform 4.9.23 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.9.23 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 4.9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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 4.9.23. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:0654

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/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

golang: archive/zip: malformed archive may cause panic or memory exhaustion (incomplete fix of CVE-2021-33196) (CVE-2021-39293)

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.

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:4.9.23-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:1c13f0926c37c122eb5c86afd754c007f38977c8fc32d7da090490f556945afd

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.9.23-s390x

The image digest is sha256:24e3fcc5f5f28df01668ad412afbc002a110709da52803fe19d6e1ef785fa654

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.9.23-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:4be36ad64852e2f241b78a3481474cd2cf124da8ec2d9263edf4264bfbc8c7f4

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 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/4.9/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 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/4.9/release_notes/ocp-4-9-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.9/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

Product	Version	Arch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	4.9	x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power	4.9	ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE	4.9	s390x
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64	4.9	aarch64

Fixes

CVEs

CVE-2021-39293

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Additional information

The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.