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Red Hat 7.0: RHSA-2016:1474-01 Low: OpenStack-Neutron Risk

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2016
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Minor upgrade for openstack-neutron on RHEL 7.0 boosts security protocols and addresses various concerns.
An update for openstack-neutron is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7

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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: openstack-neutron
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 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 Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7:
Source: openstack-neutron-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-neutron-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-bigswitch-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-brocade-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-cisco-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-common-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-embrane-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-ibm-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-linuxbridge-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-mellanox-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-metaplugin-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-metering-agent-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-midonet-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-ml2-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-nec-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-nuage-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-ofagent-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-oneconvergence-nvsd-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-opencontrail-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-openvswitch-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-neutron-ovsvapp-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1474-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1474
Issue date: 2016-07-20

Topic

An update for openstack-neutron is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7.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 red hat bug fix networking low severity openstack neutron

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1311864 - Neutron L3 Agent shows duplicate ports

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

1347428 - neutron-meter-agent - makes traffic between internal networks NATed

1350400 - Rebase openstack-neutron to 2015.1.4

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