RHSA-2026:95408CriticalCVSS 9.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.21.42 bug fix and security update

Published
November 9, 2026
Last Modified
November 9, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2026-98432 →CVE-2026-111497 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-98432 — kernel: ipv4: free inet_opt and ireq_opt after an RCU grace period CVE-2026-111497 — brotli: Out-of-Bounds Write in Google Brotli Decoder

🎯 Affected products5

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
  • rhcos-aarch64-4.21.9.6.202611042115-0 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
  • rhcos-ppc64le-4.21.9.6.202611042115-0 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
  • rhcos-s390x-4.21.9.6.202611042115-0 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
  • rhcos-x86_64-4.21.9.6.202611042115-0 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21

✅ Remediation

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 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/4.21/html/release_notes/ You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata for x86_64, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures. The image digests may be found at https://quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release?tab=tags. The sha values for the release are as follows: (For x86_64 architecture) The image digest is sha256:38312c2ae5e7dbdea4407436830372558fc0ef66a933c9bf47f06dfd7b5e4680 (For s390x architecture) The image digest is sha256:1106da94177b9358022a2c8fcabf65774ad119e18868029a285d38393874e1d6 (For ppc64le architecture) The image digest is sha256:4a52f94e18cf97a4fccbbb85d1303a3c952bcaa0c0c174a5b0fb58b7854fdfef (For aarch64 architecture) The image digest is sha256:b5b6816d26b4ab608fa25c61b1f053b4b5f99b48ed38a9a6aa722fabc2cd33de All OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 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/4.21/html-single/updating_clusters/index#updating-cluster-cli. Workaround: See the security bulletin for a detailed mitigation procedure.

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