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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2015:2650-01 Moderate: Network Spoofing

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2015
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Urgent security patch notifications released for CentOS OpenStack, focusing on pressing vulnerabilities in installation procedures.
Updated packages that fix two security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 director for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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 Linux OpenStack Platform director provides the facilities for deploying and monitoring a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
It was discovered that the director's NeutronMetadataProxySharedSecret parameter remained specified at the default value of 'unset'. This value is used by OpenStack Networking to sign instance headers; if unchanged, an attacker knowing the shared secret could use this flaw to spoof OpenStack Networking metadata requests. (CVE-2015-5303)
A flaw was found in the director (openstack-tripleo-heat-templates) where the RabbitMQ credentials defaulted to guest/guest and supplied values in the configuration were not used. As a result, all deployed overclouds used the same credentials (guest/guest). A remote, non-authenticated attacker could use this flaw to access RabbitMQ services in the deployed cloud. (CVE-2015-5329)
The CVE-2015-5303 issue was discovered by Steven Hardy of Red Hat. Red Hat would like to thank Kota Akatsuka of NEC for reporting the CVE-2015-5329 issue.
Additional bug fixes include:
* Previously, hard-coded parameters were passed directly to Orchestration (heat). As a result, the parameters could not be overridden properly. With this update, a custom environment file from the parameters collected is generated and pass as 'parameter_defaults', allowing parameters to be overridden.(BZ#1245737)
* Previously, when scaling out Compute nodes in the Overcloud after an update was performed, the default UpdateIdentifier parameter in the Orchestration stack caused the new node to attempt an update as soon as it was coming up. Because the yum repositories were not configured on the new nodes yet, this caused the update to fail, which in turn caused the scale out to fail. With this update, the client, python-rdomanager-oscplugin, does not clear the UpdateIdentifier parameter on subsequent stack-update attempts (including the scale out) until after the initial update has been completed. As a result, scale-out attempts after the update now succeed.(BZ#1290796)
* Previously, the 'debug' parameter was enabled and hard-coded in the overcloud deployment code, and the user could not disable debugging. With this update, the 'debug' parameter has been removed from default hard-coded parameters in the overcloud deployment code. As a result, the user can now control the debugging level in the environment file used to deploy the overcloud.(BZ#1259084)
* Previously, deployment validation checked all OpenStack Bare Metal (ironic) nodes, including ones in maintenance mode (even though these cannot be deployed), which resulted in false errors and warnings. With this update, nodes in maintenance mode are skipped by the validation step and false errors are no longer produced.(BZ#1261863)
* Previously, the 'tempest-deployer-input.conf' file contained an incorrect stack_owner_role value, which meant that using this file for post-install validation caused Tempest test failures. With this update, the stack_owner_role value generated during deployment has been changed. As a result, fewer Tempest tests will fail during post-install validation. (BZ#1265714)
* Previously, breakpoints were not removed when an update operation failed. If a user ran the "openstack overcloud update" command and it failed, the subsequent stack-update command (for example, "openstack overcloud deploy") could be stuck in the 'IN_PROGRESS' state waiting for the removal of breakpoints. With this update, all existing CLI commands explicitly remove any existing breakpoints when running a stack-update operation, and stack-update operations do not get stuck in the 'IN_PROGRESS' state.(BZ#1267558)
All Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 director users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5303 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5329 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7:
Source: openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0.8.6-94.el7ost.src.rpm python-rdomanager-oscplugin-0.0.10-22.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-tripleo-heat-templates-0.8.6-94.el7ost.noarch.rpm python-rdomanager-oscplugin-0.0.10-22.el7ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2650-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Issue date: 2015-12-21

Topic

Updated packages that fix two security issues and multiple bugs are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 directorfor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate securityimpact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in theReferences section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack 7.0 Director for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1231885 - Nodes reconnection to the broker not working properly. Compute nodes are not registered again

1241434 - Add removal policies params for resource groups

1245737 - hard-coded parameters can't be overridden

1252083 - Secure rabbitmq installation for overcloud

1259084 - Unable to override value of Debug to deployment

1260776 - Error is displayed in the beginning of the deploy: "nodes with no profile that will not be used"

1261863 - The deployment configuration validation functions should skip nodes that are in maintenance mode

1262425 - memcached needs the interleave=true pacemaker attribute

1265714 - Tempest has a wrong stack_owner_role value when deploying with osp-d

1266910 - All l3 agents go to standby ha_state after restarting haproxy resource

1267558 - Breakpoints are not deleted after stack-update operation

1267855 - unable to update overcloud configuration from underclound node.

1268415 - rhel-osp-director: unable to configure overcloud after creation using the OS::TripleO::NodeExtraConfigPost resource.

1271692 - python-rdomanager-oscplugin should not install unit tests

1272297 - CVE-2015-5303 python-rdomanager-oscplugin: NeutronMetadataProxySharedSecret parameter uses default value

1272347 - director stack update 7.0 to 7.1 KeystoneAdminApiNetwork change causes unwanted services restart

1272357 - director stack update 7.0 to 7.1 VIP change

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