Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-8697-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.40 bug fix and security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:8697-03
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8697
Issue date: 2024-11-11
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-29401
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Summary:

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.14.40 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 4.14.

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 4.14.40. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8700

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/4.14/release_notes/ocp-4-14-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

* encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains
deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion
(CVE-2024-34156)
* golang-github-gin-gonic-gin: Gin Web Framework does not properly sanitize
filename parameter of Context.FileAttachment function (CVE-2023-29401)
* net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in
net/http (CVE-2024-24791)
* go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply
nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)
* go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a \”// +build\” build tag
line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack
exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)

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 4.14 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/4.14/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Solution:

CVEs:

CVE-2023-29401

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2216957
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295310
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310527
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310528
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310529
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-10337
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-39086
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-42935
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-42952
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43058
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43368
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43484
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43505
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43628
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43688
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43821
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-43916