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Red Hat: RHSA-2015-0791 Important: OpenStack Remote Access Risk

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2015
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Crucial notice regarding Red Hat OpenStack is now available, focusing on resolving vulnerabilities and addressing defects, thus greatly improving overall system security.
Updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Installer packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platfor...

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat Enterprise OpenStack Platform Installer is a deployment management tool. It provides a web user interface for managing the installation and configuration of remote systems. Deployment of changes is performed using Puppet. Additionally, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), Preboot Execution Environment (PXE), and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) services can be provided. Controlling these services also enables provisioning of physical systems that do not yet have an operating system installed.
It was discovered that the puppet manifests, as provided with the openstack-puppet-modules package, would configure the pcsd daemon with a known default password. If this password was not changed and an attacker was able to gain access to pcsd, they could potentially run shell commands as root. (CVE-2015-1842)
Note: This flaw only affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform installations deployed using the HA feature set.
For additional information on addressing this flaw see: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1396123
This issue was discovered by Alessandro Vozza of Red Hat.
In addition to the above issue, this update also addresses multiple bugs which are documented in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Technical Notes, linked to in the References section.
All Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Installer users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix remote access important Red Hat OpenStack installer

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1842 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/articles/1396123

Package List

OpenStack 6 Installer for RHEL 7:
Source: foreman-discovery-image-7.0-20150227.0.el7ost.src.rpm foreman-proxy-1.6.0.30-6.el7ost.src.rpm openstack-foreman-installer-3.0.22-1.el7ost.src.rpm openstack-puppet-modules-2014.2.13-2.el7ost.src.rpm rhel-osp-installer-0.5.7-1.el7ost.src.rpm ruby193-rubygem-staypuft-0.5.22-1.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: foreman-discovery-image-7.0-20150227.0.el7ost.noarch.rpm foreman-proxy-1.6.0.30-6.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-foreman-installer-3.0.22-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-puppet-modules-2014.2.13-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm rhel-osp-installer-0.5.7-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm rhel-osp-installer-client-0.5.7-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-staypuft-0.5.22-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm ruby193-rubygem-staypuft-doc-0.5.22-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:0791-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0791.html
Issue date: 2015-04-07

Topic

Updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Installer packages thatfix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important securityimpact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in theReferences section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix remote access important Red Hat OpenStack installer

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack 6 Installer for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1131584 - If fd0 is in /proc/partitions in the provisioned nodes installation fails with "Specified nonexistent disk fd0 in partition command"

1179892 - Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `to_a' for "eqlx1":String at /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/quickstack/manifests/cinder_volume.pp:179

1187815 - Add an indicator to Assigned Hosts table to show when networks have been configured

1188602 - Can't change the IP in interfaces of hosts assigned to an OSP deployment if the interfaces are a bond device

1189921 - [HA] start/stop ordering constraint are not correct and can cause cluster to fail on shutdown

1190185 - OFI not reliably setting IP for tenant bridge when using tunnels

1191519 - Need to increase the value of max_connections in Galera to avoid disconnections

1192513 - Ceilometer not installed correctly via installer

1192862 - Glance fails to start after RHEL-OSP6 install with Ceph backend (missing known_stores)

1192864 - Ceph public network is evaluated to be the Provisioning/PXE network

1193582 - [Neutron][Staypuft] Single Controller fails to create router

1194269 - Deployment will stop on systems which boots/shutdowns quickly and foreman-proxy is terminated before buffer is flushed.

1196310 - Include rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-rpms channel for HA deployments

1198032 - VRRP_Instance are on MASTER STATE on all controllers.

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