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Red Hat OpenShift 4.11.27 RHSA-2023:0651-01 Important Security Update

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2023
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OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.27 has been launched with vital security upgrades and bug fixes to enhance system reliability and performance for users
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.27 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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/4.11/html/release_notes/ocp-4-11-release-notes

You can download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests can 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 sha256:65e71a774a18c1c191f28655ce245abeecd653e8215b75f87eb23ceadacd530d

(For s390x architecture) The image digest is sha256:cfccfab6abf7cd74cffbc43e4ae38745f258cb28ff6360b0f433c7718d6f144b

(For ppc64le architecture) The image digest is sha256: e13089586d2061a41250e2b546259bef0c5c4995c704d0e2220ae516a1a675da

(For aarch64 architecture) The image digest is sha256:932754cfa58f41186a48ecff03c6345c59325fc7ff1496e91e57fa34752db142

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 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.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.11/html/updating_clusters/updating-cluster-cli

Summary

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution esigned 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 elated information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* Networking Day 1 - Bootstrap Doesn't Get External IP when no DHCP Server (BZ#2048600)

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix important update OpenShift container platform

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

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0651-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0651
Issue date: 2023-02-15

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.11.27 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix important update OpenShift container platform

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

2048600 - Networking Day 1 - Bootstrap Doesn't Get External IP when no DHCP Server

2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be

5. JIRA issues fixed (https://issues.redhat.com/):

OCPBUGS-3507 - [4.11.z] Incorrect network configuration in worker node with two interfaces

OCPBUGS-4340 - oc get dc fails when AllRequestBodies audit-profile is set in apiserver

OCPBUGS-5459 - Topology sidebar actions doesn't show the latest resource data

OCPBUGS-5926 - NMstate removes egressip in OpenShift cluster with SDN plugin

OCPBUGS-6176 - Tracker: Configure ignored namespaces into multus-admission-controller (4.11)

OCPBUGS-6683 - [4.11]Improve Pod Admission failure for restricted-v2 denials that pass with restricted

OCPBUGS-6837 - Add rpm-build to DTK image

OCPBUGS-6907 - Image registry Operator does not use Proxy when connecting to openstack

OCPBUGS-6920 - Tracker: Configure ignored namespaces into multus-admission-controller (4.11,CNO)

OCPBUGS-7033 - 4.11 error 524 from seccomp(2) when trying to load filter [rhel-8.6.0.z]

OCPBUGS-7034 - 4.11 [iavf] It takes long time to create multiple VF interfaces and the VF interface names are not consistent [rhel-8.6.0.z]

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