Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-7599-03 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.16 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include code execution, denial of service, integer overflow, and out of bounds write vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.16 bug fix and security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:7599-03
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:7599
Issue date: 2024-10-09
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-3462
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Summary:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.16.16 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements.
This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.
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.
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 4.16.16. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2024:7602
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/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-release-notes.html
Security Fix(es):
* glibc: Out of bounds write in iconv may lead to remote code execution
(CVE-2024-2961)
* Hashicorp/vault: Vault’s LDAP Auth Method Allows for User Enumeration
(CVE-2023-3462)
* openssl: Possible denial of service in X.509 name checks (CVE-2024-6119)
* path-to-regexp: Backtracking regular expressions cause ReDoS
(CVE-2024-45296)
* libexpat: Negative Length Parsing Vulnerability in libexpat
(CVE-2024-45490)
* libexpat: Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2024-45491)
* libexpat: integer overflow (CVE-2024-45492)
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.
All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 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/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html
Solution:
CVEs:
CVE-2023-3462
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228020
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273404
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2306158
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308615
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308616
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308617
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310908
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-31878
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-35850
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-36816
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-37654
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-37689
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-38687
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-38797
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-39377
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-41709
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-41905
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-42012
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-42015
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-42057
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-42113
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-42382