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RedHat: RHSA-2021-4829 Important: OpenShift 4.8.22 Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical patch release for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.22, encompassing package improvements and bug resolutions.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.22 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.8/html/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.8/html/updating_clusters/updating-cluster-cli

Summary

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 4.8.22. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:4830
All OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 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
Security Fix(es):
* jenkins-2-plugins/subversion: does not restrict the name of a file when looking up a subversion key (CVE-2021-21698) * jenkins: FilePath#mkdirs does not check permission to create parent directories (CVE-2021-21685) * jenkins: File path filters do not canonicalize paths, allowing operations to follow symbolic links to outside allowed directories (CVE-2021-21686) * jenkins: FilePath#untar does not check permission to create symbolic links when unarchiving a symbolic link (CVE-2021-21687) * jenkins: FilePath#reading(FileVisitor) does not reject any operations allowing users to have unrestricted read access (CVE-2021-21688) * coreos-installer: restrict access permissions on /boot/ignition{,/config.ign} (CVE-2021-3917) * jenkins: FilePath#unzip and FilePath#untar were not subject to any access control (CVE-2021-21689) * jenkins: Agent processes are able to completely bypass file path filtering by wrapping the file operation in an agent file path (CVE-2021-21690) * jenkins: Creating symbolic links is possible without the symlink permission (CVE-2021-21691) * jenkins: The operations FilePath#renameTo and FilePath#moveAllChildrenTo only check read permission on the source path (CVE-2021-21692) * jenkins: When creating temporary files, permission to create files is only checked after they’ve been created. (CVE-2021-21693) * jenkins: FilePath#toURI, FilePath#hasSymlink, FilePath#absolutize, FilePath#isDescendant, and FilePath#get*DiskSpace do not check any permissions (CVE-2021-21694) * jenkins: FilePath#listFiles lists files outside directories with agent read access when following symbolic links. (CVE-2021-21695) * jenkins: Agent-to-controller access control allowed writing to sensitive directory used by Pipeline: Shared Groovy Libraries Plugin (CVE-2021-21696) * jenkins: Agent-to-controller access control allows reading/writing most content of build directories (CVE-2021-21697)
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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3917 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21685 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21686 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21687 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21688 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21689 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21690 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21691 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21692 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21693 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21694 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21695 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21696 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21697 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21698 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8:
Source: cri-o-1.21.4-3.rhaos4.8.git84fa55d.el7.src.rpm openshift-4.8.0-202111221934.p0.g81bc627.assembly.stream.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: cri-o-1.21.4-3.rhaos4.8.git84fa55d.el7.x86_64.rpm cri-o-debuginfo-1.21.4-3.rhaos4.8.git84fa55d.el7.x86_64.rpm openshift-hyperkube-4.8.0-202111221934.p0.g81bc627.assembly.stream.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8:
Source: coreos-installer-0.9.0-8.rhaos4.8.el8.src.rpm cri-o-1.21.4-3.rhaos4.8.git84fa55d.el8.src.rpm jenkins-2-plugins-4.8.1637599935-1.el8.src.rpm jenkins-2.303.3.1637596565-1.el8.src.rpm openshift-4.8.0-202111221934.p0.g81bc627.assembly.stream.el8.src.rpm openshift-kuryr-4.8.0-202111221627.p0.g43dd2f6.assembly.stream.el8.src.rpm python-sushy-3.7.4-0.20211119091058.2cc60dc.el8.src.rpm
noarch: jenkins-2-plugins-4.8.1637599935-1.el8.noarch.rpm jenkins-2.303.3.1637596565-1.el8.noarch.rpm openshift-kuryr-cni-4.8.0-202111221627.p0.g43dd2f6.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm openshift-kuryr-common-4.8.0-202111221627.p0.g43dd2f6.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm openshift-kuryr-controller-4.8.0-202111221627.p0.g43dd2f6.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm python3-kuryr-kubernetes-4.8.0-202111221627.p0.g43dd2f6.assembly.stream.el8.noarch.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4829-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Issue date: 2021-11-30

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.22 is now available withupdates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2018478 - CVE-2021-3917 coreos-installer: restrict access permissions on /boot/ignition{,/config.ign}

2020322 - CVE-2021-21685 jenkins: FilePath#mkdirs does not check permission to create parent directories

2020323 - CVE-2021-21686 jenkins: File path filters do not canonicalize paths, allowing operations to follow symbolic links to outside allowed directories

2020324 - CVE-2021-21687 jenkins: FilePath#untar does not check permission to create symbolic links when unarchiving a symbolic link

2020327 - CVE-2021-21688 jenkins: FilePath#reading(FileVisitor) does not reject any operations allowing users to have unrestricted read access

2020335 - CVE-2021-21689 jenkins: FilePath#unzip and FilePath#untar were not subject to any access control

2020336 - CVE-2021-21690 jenkins: Agent processes are able to completely bypass file path filtering by wrapping the file operation in an agent file path

2020338 - CVE-2021-21691 jenkins: Creating symbolic links is possible without the symlink permission

2020339 - CVE-2021-21692 jenkins: The operations FilePath#renameTo and FilePath#moveAllChildrenTo only check read permission on the source path

2020341 - CVE-2021-21693 jenkins: When creating temporary files, permission to create files is only checked after they’ve been created.

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