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Red Hat OpenStack 8.0 RHSA-2016:1473-01 Low: Neutron Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2016
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Canonical unveils a new version of openstack-neutron, categorized as minor impact, resolving security vulnerabilities and offering stability enhancements. Discover the details!
An update for openstack-neutron is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Summary

OpenStack Networking (neutron) is a pluggable, scalable, and API-driven system that provisions networking services to virtual machines. Its main function is to manage connectivity to and from virtual machines.
Security Fix(es):
* Neutron functionality includes internal firewall management between networks. Due to the relaxed nature of particular rules, it is possible for machines on the same layer 2 networks to forge non-IP traffic, such as ARP and DHCP requests. (CVE-2015-8914, CVE-2016-5362, CVE-2016-5363)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix networking low severity openstack-neutron

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8914 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5362 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5363 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty):
Source: openstack-neutron-7.0.4-11.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-neutron-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-bigswitch-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-brocade-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-cisco-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-common-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-dev-server-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-embrane-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-linuxbridge-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-mellanox-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-metering-agent-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-midonet-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-ml2-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-nuage-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-ofagent-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-oneconvergence-nvsd-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-opencontrail-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-openvswitch-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-ovsvapp-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-rpc-server-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-sriov-nic-agent-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm python-neutron-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm python-neutron-tests-7.0.4-11.el7ost.noarch.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1473-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1473
Issue date: 2016-07-20

Topic

An update for openstack-neutron is now available for Red Hat OpenStackPlatform 8.0 (Liberty).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix networking low severity openstack-neutron

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1330778 - Deadlock occurs when we turn on syslog and forking a process

1345889 - CVE-2016-5362 openstack-neutron: DHCP spoofing vulnerability

1345891 - CVE-2016-5363 openstack-neutron: MAC source address spoofing vulnerability

1345892 - CVE-2015-8914 openstack-neutron: ICMPv6 source address spoofing vulnerability

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