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Red Hat OpenStack Folsom RHSA-2013:0708-01 Moderate: Keystone Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey April 4, 2013
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New openstack-glance packages address security vulnerabilities leading to a moderate advisory for Red Hat OpenStack Essex.
Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix two security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Folsom

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Summary

The openstack-keystone packages provide Keystone, a Python implementation of the OpenStack identity service API, which provides Identity, Token, Catalog, and Policy services.
It was found that Keystone did not correctly handle revoked PKI tokens, allowing users with revoked tokens to retain access to resources they should no longer be able to access. (CVE-2013-1865)
A flaw was found in the way Keystone handled tenant names in token requests. A request containing an excessively long tenant name could cause Keystone to consume a large amount of CPU and memory. With this update, the maximum HTTP request size is limited to 112k. This can be changed via the "max_request_body_size" option in "/etc/keystone/keystone.conf". (CVE-2013-0270)
Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting the CVE-2013-1865 issue. Upstream acknowledges Guang Yee (HP) as the original reporter of CVE-2013-1865. The CVE-2013-0270 issue was discovered by Dan Prince of Red Hat.
This update also fixes various bugs in the openstack-keystone packages.
All users of openstack-keystone are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. After installing the updated packages, the Keystone service (openstack-keystone) will be restarted automatically.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat package update moderate severity access control issue openstack identity service

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0270 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1865 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

OpenStack Folsom:
Source:
noarch: openstack-keystone-2012.2.3-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-keystone-doc-2012.2.3-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm python-keystone-2012.2.3-7.el6ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0708-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0708.html
Issue date: 2013-04-04

Topic

Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix two security issues andvarious bugs are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Folsom.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat package update moderate severity access control issue openstack identity service

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack Folsom - noarch

Bugs Fixed

887815 - a comprehensive keystone.conf file should be included in the RPMS(s)

888575 - Keystone's v2.0 API (the only API) is reported as in beta status

909012 - CVE-2013-0270 OpenStack Keystone: Large HTTP request DoS

917208 - PKI tokens are broken after 24 hours918159 - PKI tokens too long for memcached keys

922230 - CVE-2013-1865 OpenStack keystone: online validation of Keystone PKI tokens bypasses revocation check

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