Home / mailings [RHSA-2023:0770-01] Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.4 security update
Posted on 21 February 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.4 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0770-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0770
Issue date: 2023-02-20
CVE Names: CVE-2021-4238 CVE-2022-47629
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1. Summary:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.4 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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.
2. 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):
* goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as
random as they should be (CVE-2021-4238)
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.
3. Solution:
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
5. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4238
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-47629
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
6. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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