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RedHat: RHSA-2021-5184-01 Critical: OpenShift Container Platform RCE

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important release for OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.40 focused on crucial security vulnerabilities and delivering vital updates.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.40 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 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/4.7/html/release_notes/ocp-4-7-release-notes

Details on how to access this content are available at https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.7/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.
Security Fix(es):
* kube-reporting/hive: Incomplete fix for log4j CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 (CVE-2021-4125)
* log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender (CVE-2021-4104)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote execution security impact redhat openshift container platform

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4104 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4125 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-009

Package List


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5184-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5184
Issue date: 2021-12-16

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.40 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 Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote execution security impact redhat openshift container platform

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

2031667 - CVE-2021-4104 log4j: Remote code execution in Log4j 1.x when application is configured to use JMSAppender

2033121 - CVE-2021-4125 kube-reporting/hive: Incomplete fix for log4j CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046

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