Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.18 bug fix and security update
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 4.16.18. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8263 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): * 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) * containers/image: digest type does not guarantee valid type (CVE-2024-3727) * net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http (CVE-2024-24791) * jose-go: improper handling of highly compressed data (CVE-2024-28180) * 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 4.16 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
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This advisory covers security updates for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 and related components, including fixes for CVE-2024-3727 in the containers/image library where the digest type does not guarantee a valid type, potentially leading to security issues. Additional fixes address denial of service vulnerabilities in net/http and GraphQL batching, infinite loops in protojson.Unmarshal, argument injection in go-git, and sensitive information leakage in go-retryablehttp logs. The update includes container images and RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.1. The vendor advisory confirms the availability of patches and provides upgrade instructions.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities fixed in this update could allow denial of service conditions, information leakage, and potential injection attacks within the OpenShift Container Platform environment and its underlying components. The digest type issue in containers/image may lead to improper validation of image digests, which could affect container image integrity verification. Denial of service vulnerabilities could disrupt service availability. Sensitive information leakage through logs could expose confidential data. These impacts are rated as high severity by Red Hat Product Security.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.1 and corresponding updated RPM packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users should upgrade their OpenShift clusters to version 4.18.1 and apply the updated packages as soon as they are available in their release channels. Upgrade instructions are provided by Red Hat at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.18/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html. No additional mitigations are required beyond applying these official fixes.
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.18 bug fix and security update
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 4.16.18. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8263 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): * 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) * containers/image: digest type does not guarantee valid type (CVE-2024-3727) * net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http (CVE-2024-24791) * jose-go: improper handling of highly compressed data (CVE-2024-28180) * 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 4.16 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
Affected software
Weaknesses
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Technical Analysis
This advisory covers security updates for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 and related components, including fixes for CVE-2024-3727 in the containers/image library where the digest type does not guarantee a valid type, potentially leading to security issues. Additional fixes address denial of service vulnerabilities in net/http and GraphQL batching, infinite loops in protojson.Unmarshal, argument injection in go-git, and sensitive information leakage in go-retryablehttp logs. The update includes container images and RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.1. The vendor advisory confirms the availability of patches and provides upgrade instructions.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities fixed in this update could allow denial of service conditions, information leakage, and potential injection attacks within the OpenShift Container Platform environment and its underlying components. The digest type issue in containers/image may lead to improper validation of image digests, which could affect container image integrity verification. Denial of service vulnerabilities could disrupt service availability. Sensitive information leakage through logs could expose confidential data. These impacts are rated as high severity by Red Hat Product Security.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.1 and corresponding updated RPM packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users should upgrade their OpenShift clusters to version 4.18.1 and apply the updated packages as soon as they are available in their release channels. Upgrade instructions are provided by Red Hat at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.18/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html. No additional mitigations are required beyond applying these official fixes.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2024:6122
- Cve Count
- 8
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-6104","CVE-2024-12698","CVE-2024-24786","CVE-2024-45338","CVE-2024-50311","CVE-2025-21613","CVE-2025-21614"]
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a160957e29bf47b5061c321
Added to database: 05/26/2026, 20:57:59 UTC
Last enriched: 08/14/2026, 23:23:07 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:48 UTC
Views: 161
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