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Red Hat OpenStack 8.0 RHSA-2017-0361-01 Moderate Information Disclosure

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2017
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Essential security enhancement for openstack-puppet-modules within Red Hat OpenStack Framework, encompassing vital corrections.
An update for openstack-puppet-modules 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-puppet-modules provides a collection of Puppet modules which Red Hat OpenStack Platform director uses to install and configure OpenStack.
Security Fix(es):
* An information-disclosure flaw was discovered in Red Hat OpenStack Platform director's installation of Object Storage (swift). During installation, the Puppet script responsible for deploying the service incorrectly removes and recreates the proxy-server.conf file with world-readable permissions. (CVE-2016-9590)
Red Hat would like to thank Hans Feldt (Ericsson) for reporting this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory information disclosure Red Hat OpenStack Red Hat update Puppet modules security impact moderate

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9590 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty):
Source: openstack-puppet-modules-7.1.5-2.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-puppet-modules-7.1.5-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0361-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0361.html
Issue date: 2017-03-01

Topic

An update for openstack-puppet-modules is now available for Red HatOpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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 information disclosure Red Hat OpenStack Red Hat update Puppet modules security impact moderate

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1410293 - CVE-2016-9590 puppet-swift: installs config file with world readable permissions

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