Issued:
2023-01-17
Updated:
2023-01-17

RHSA-2022:7399 - Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.0 bug fix and security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.0 bug fix and security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.0 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 4.12.

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 4.12.0. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7398

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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

  • golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS (CVE-2021-38561)
  • golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)
  • golang: archive/tar: unbounded memory consumption when reading headers (CVE-2022-2879)
  • golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy should not forward unparseable query parameters (CVE-2022-2880)
  • prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)
  • golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)
  • golang: net/url: JoinPath does not strip relative path components in all circumstances (CVE-2022-32190)
  • vault: insufficient certificate revocation list checking (CVE-2022-41316)
  • golang: regexp/syntax: limit memory used by parsing regexps (CVE-2022-41715)
  • openshift: etcd grpc-proxy vulnerable to The Birthday attack against 64-bit block cipher (CVE-2023-0296)

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

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/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, aarch64 architectures.

The image digests may be found at Content from quay.io is not included.https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags

The sha values for the release are:

(For x86_64 architecture) The image digest is sha256:4c5a7e26d707780be6466ddc9591865beb2e3baa5556432d23e8d57966a2dd18

(For s390x architecture) The image digest is sha256:ab70750be4fadf5a525141ae32a8577c91dd19f1d6e582a6824339c938216ec0

(For ppc64le architecture) The image digest is sha256:5a5943dea60b40f73ecee685b12fff1d65cc8bfe946f762fdfe862969483ddbb

(For aarch64 architecture) The image digest is sha256:cb34667519d1cfd8eedf0fb27e14b7b7e6209323b86977bfaadf91da012d179d

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform4.12x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform4.12x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power4.12ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power4.12ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE4.12s390x
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE4.12s390x
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 644.12aarch64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 644.12aarch64

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