Issued:: 2024-09-24
Updated:: 2024-09-24

RHSA-2024:6824 - Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.14 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.14 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.14 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 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. Security Fix(es):

containers/image: digest type does not guarantee valid type (CVE-2024-3727)
golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)
Bare Metal Operator: BMO can expose particularly named secrets from other namespaces via BMH CRD (CVE-2024-43803)

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 4.16 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/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-release-notes.html You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests may be found at 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 sha256:0521a0f1acd2d1b77f76259cb9bae9c743c60c37d9903806a3372c1414253658

  (For s390x architecture)
  The image digest is sha256:10935ec4eff66bc610801300a4376e6d733631e93681ef1dae5f0962fec98681

  (For ppc64le architecture)
  The image digest is sha256:dbf7aec1bd0a24fd5a23d6ac927d101b7e0cfcb8d4ccb8c440b2ed17a0dd9705

  (For aarch64 architecture)
  The image digest is sha256:76eb80594e33fc9300a0f36e4402e5232681eddf948b995a8d1acfd2fc7d72f9

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

Affected Products

Product	Version	Arch
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	4.16	x86_64
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power	4.16	ppc64le
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE	4.16	s390x
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64	4.16	aarch64

Fixes

CVEs

References

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

Additional information

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