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RHEL 7: RHSA-2016-0363 Important: openstack-nova Info Leak

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2016
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Revised openstack-nova components for Red Hat address security vulnerabilities and bolster cloud ecosystem robustness. Critical notice.
Updated openstack-nova packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 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

OpenStack Compute (nova) launches and schedules large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances and controlling access through users and projects.
An information-exposure flaw was found in the OpenStack Compute (nova) resize and migrate functionality. An authenticated user could write a malicious qcow header to an ephemeral or root disk, referencing a block device as a backing file. With a subsequent resize or migration, file system content on the specified device would be leaked to the user. Only setups using libvirt with raw storage and "use_cow_images = False" were affected. (CVE-2016-2140)
This issue was discovered by Matthew Booth of Red Hat.
All openstack-nova users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important security impact info exposure RHEL cloud computing openstack-nova

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2140 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7:
Source: openstack-nova-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-nova-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-api-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-cells-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-cert-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-common-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-compute-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-conductor-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-console-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-doc-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-network-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-novncproxy-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-objectstore-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-scheduler-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-serialproxy-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm python-nova-2015.1.2-18.1.el7ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0363-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0363.html
Issue date: 2016-03-08

Topic

Updated openstack-nova packages that fix one security issue are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo)for RHEL 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important security impact info exposure RHEL cloud computing openstack-nova

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1313454 - CVE-2016-2140 openstack-nova: Host data leak through resize/migration

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