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Red Hat OpenStack Folsom: RHSA-2013-0806-01 Low: Keystone LDAP Issue

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2013
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Recent updates to openstack-keystone packages mitigate minor security risks and incorporate multiple bug repairs, improving overall system reliability.
Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix one security issue 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/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.
These updated packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2012.2.4, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#950132)
This update also fixes the following security issue:
In environments using LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), if debug-level logging was enabled (for example, by enabling it in "/etc/keystone/keystone.conf"), the LDAP server password was logged in plain text to a world-readable log file. Debug-level logging is not enabled by default. (CVE-2013-2006)
Additionally, this update also fixes the following bugs:
* If the Keystone service incurred an HTTP error as a result of a transient network error, authentication tokens were listed as invalid. With this update, the Keystone service will now retry requests a few times before failing, which masks transient network errors. (BZ#919526)
* The "/var/log/keystone/" directory was world-readable. With this update, world-read permissions have been removed. (BZ#956474)
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 bug fix low severity LDAP openstack identity service

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2006 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

OpenStack Folsom:
Source:
noarch: openstack-keystone-2012.2.4-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm openstack-keystone-doc-2012.2.4-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm python-keystone-2012.2.4-2.el6ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0806-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0806.html
Issue date: 2013-05-09

Topic

Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix one security issue and variousbugs are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Folsom.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having lowsecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link inthe References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix low severity LDAP openstack identity service

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack Folsom - noarch

Bugs Fixed

919526 - Temporary network outage results in connection refused and invalid token

956007 - CVE-2013-2006 OpenStack keystone: DEBUG level LDAP password disclosure in log files

956474 - OpenStack keystone: /var/log/keystone/ is world readable

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