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Red Hat OpenStack 7.0 RHSA-2017:0530-01 Moderate RabbitMQ DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2017
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A balanced security update for rabbitmq-server on Red Hat OpenStack Platform has been released to mitigate potential denial of service vulnerabilities.
An update for rabbitmq-server 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

RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for high performance enterprise messaging. The RabbitMQ server is a robust and scalable implementation of an AMQP broker.
Security Fix(es):
* A resource-consumption flaw was found in RabbitMQ Server, where the lengths_age or lengths_incr parameters were not validated in the management plugin. Remote, authenticated users with certain privileges could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service by passing values which were too large. (CVE-2015-8786)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity DoS threat Red Hat OpenStack RabbitMQ

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8786 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7:
Source: rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-31.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: rabbitmq-server-3.3.5-31.el7ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0530-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0530.html
Issue date: 2017-03-15

Topic

An update for rabbitmq-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise LinuxOpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7.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 moderate severity DoS threat Red Hat OpenStack RabbitMQ

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1404150 - CVE-2015-8786 rabbitmq-server: DoS via lengths_age or lengths_incr parameter in the management plugin

1405211 - RabbitMQ logs are not rotated properly

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