An OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.8 security update has been released.
RHSA-2023:1270-01: Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.8 security update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.8 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1270-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1270
Issue date: 2023-03-21
CVE Names: CVE-2021-4238 CVE-2023-25725
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1. Summary:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.12.8 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 4.12.
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.
2. 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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.12.8. See the following advisory for the container images for
this release:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:1269
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 related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
All OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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/4.12/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html
3. Solution:
For OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html
4. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2156729 - CVE-2021-4238 goutils: RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric are not as random as they should be
5. JIRA issues fixed ( https://issues.jboss.org/):
OCPBUGS-7730 - fix DPU Network Operator bundle
6. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4238
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25725
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/release_notes/ocp-4-12-release-notes.html
7. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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