Issued:
2024-06-27
Updated:
2024-06-27

RHSA-2024:0040 - Critical: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.0 security and extras update

Synopsis

Critical: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.0 security and extras update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.0 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 4.16.

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.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.0. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0041

Security Fix(es):

  • ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP) (CVE-2023-48795)
  • golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)
  • cloudevents/sdk-go: usage of WithRoundTripper to create a Client leaks credentials (CVE-2024-28110)

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.

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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 CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform4.16x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power4.16ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE4.16s390x
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 644.16aarch64

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