Home / mailings [RHSA-2023:0890-01] Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.5 security update
Posted on 28 February 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.5 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0890-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0890
Issue date: 2023-02-28
CVE Names: CVE-2021-38561
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1. Summary:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.5 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 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.
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.
This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.12.5. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0889
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)
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
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:fd65cebce150bac3c622e30e7f762d3173575ae3541b3a7648819cb63e9b63a4
(For s390x architecture)
The image digest is
sha256:937b52bf3320896ec90da1444ff76c8c037d0a8631f541ca6950a847aaef7ca1
(For ppc64le architecture)
The image digest is
sha256:2da6b8a9ca11dbec1a8bf5dd8e49f52a96d09b7e474fe109ad85fc0ba071747b
(For aarch64 architecture)
The image digest is
sha256:d9001785543f8855ea653493aea8c8c6a3ca029565e8d0e282cfa11b06966239
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 CLI (oc)
or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html
4. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2060978 - Facing issues while binding role to Group
2100495 - CVE-2021-38561 golang: out-of-bounds read in golang.org/x/text/language leads to DoS
5. JIRA issues fixed (https://issues.jboss.org/):
OCPBUGS-2442 - OCP 4.12 on Z Installations fail when FIPS=TRUE installation option specified for OCP 4.12.0-EC.4 and nightly builds after
OCPBUGS-4072 - Endless rerender loop and a stuck browser on the add and topology page when SBO is installed
OCPBUGS-5569 - [OVN] DHCP timeouts on Azure arm64, install fails
OCPBUGS-5953 - ip-reconciler removes the overlappingrangeipreservations whether the pod is alive or not [backport 4.12]
OCPBUGS-5992 - [azure] Fail to create master node with vm size in standardNVSv4Family
OCPBUGS-6666 - [UI] When OCP and ODF are upgraded, refresh web console pop-up doesn't appear after ODF upgrade resulting in dashboard crash
OCPBUGS-6671 - Broken secret created while starting a Pipeline
OCPBUGS-6782 - [release-4.12] gather Machine objects
OCPBUGS-6816 - Repositories list does not show the running pipelinerun as last pipelinerun
OCPBUGS-6831 - Console crashes when pinnedResources is null (which could be the case starting 4.13)
OCPBUGS-6833 - [release-4.12] Include openshift_apps_deploymentconfigs_strategy_total to recent_metrics
OCPBUGS-6873 - The dropdown list component will be covered by deployment details page on Topology page
OCPBUGS-6887 - Show Tag label and tag name if tag is detected in repository PipelineRun list and details page
OCPBUGS-6935 - [4.12] Degraded etcd on assisted-installer installation- bootstrap etcd is not removed properly
OCPBUGS-6943 - ovs-configuration.service fails - Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this connection
OCPBUGS-6966 - [Openshift Pipelines] Description of parameters are not shown in pipelinerun description page
OCPBUGS-6991 - Irrelevant vsphere platform data is required
OCPBUGS-7108 - Default CatalogSource aren't always reverted to default settings
OCPBUGS-7214 - [4.12] OCP 4.12 does not support launching SGX enclaves
OCPBUGS-7331 - [4.12] aws-ebs-csi-driver-operator crash loops with HC proxy configured
OCPBUGS-7373 - [release-4.12] fail early on missing node status envs
OCPBUGS-7409 - set default timeouts in etcdcli
OCPBUGS-7437 - Webhook Secret (1 of 2) is not removed when Knative Service is deleted
OCPBUGS-7458 - thanos-ruler-user-workload-1 pod is getting repeatedly re-created after upgrade do 4.10.41
OCPBUGS-7471 - Right border radius is 0 for the pipeline visualization wrapper in dark mode
OCPBUGS-7506 - [CI-Watcher] e2e issue with tests: Interacting with CatalogSource page
OCPBUGS-7556 - OLM downstream utest fails due to new release-XX+1 branch creation
OCPBUGS-7633 - Fix disaster recovery test [sig-etcd][Feature:DisasterRecovery][Disruptive] [Feature:EtcdRecovery] Cluster should restore itself after quorum loss [Serial]
OCPBUGS-7705 - ART having trouble building OLM images because of v0.0.0 dependencies
OCPBUGS-7751 - [4.12] fix gofmt check issue in network-metrics-daemon
6. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38561
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html
7. 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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