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Red Hat: RHSA-2023:4567-01 Important: Security Flaw in OpenStack Neutron

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautionary notice for Red Hat OpenStack Suite 16.2 featuring urgent patches for openstack-nova.
An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (Train)

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 Compute (codename Nova) is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines,creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances, managing networks, and controlling access through users and projects.OpenStack Compute strives to be both hardware and hypervisor agnostic, currently supporting a variety of standard hardware configurations and seven major hypervisors.
Security Fix(es):
* novnc allows open redirection (CVE-2021-3654)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) does not support the use of a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) as the instance display name in a boot server request. The instance display name is passed from the boot server request to the `instance.hostname` field. Some customers use this unsupported naming in their workflows.
A recent update [1] now sanitizes the `instance.hostname` field. The sanitization steps include replacing periods with dashes, a replacement that makes it impossible to continue using the unsupported FQDN instance display names.
This update provides a temporary workaround for customers who use a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) as the instance display name in a boot server request. It limits the scope of the sanitization to cases where the instance display name ends with a period followed by one or more numeric digits.
If you use FQDN as the instance display name in a boot server request, modify your workflow before upgrading to RHOSP 17. (BZ#2036652)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3654 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2:
Source: openstack-nova-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-nova-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-api-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-common-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-compute-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-conductor-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-console-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-migration-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-novncproxy-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-scheduler-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-serialproxy-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm python3-nova-20.6.2-2.20220112164912.8906554.el8ost.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0999-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Issue date: 2022-03-23

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStackPlatform 16.2 (Train).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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1729485 - [OSP16.2] "Invalid PCI devices Whitelist config error" configuring passthrough_whitelist with new 40Gb NICs due domain in PCI address is greater than FFFF

1908405 - Nova is out of sync with ironic as hypervisor list in nova does not agree with ironic list after reboot of the nodes

1915096 - [OSP16.2] NUMA instance spawn fails on get_best_cpu_topology when there is no 'threads' preference

1961439 - CVE-2021-3654 openstack-nova: novnc allows open redirection

1968735 - [OSP16.2][neutron]http_retries config option value not being used for calls to the port binding API

1972706 - [OSP 16.2] After host reboot VM goes to error state due to nova-compute EmptyCatalog error

1987225 - Compute service DOWN after FFU from RHOSP13 to 16.1 because service version is still 30.

1992863 - [OSP 16.2] Avoid duplicate BDMs during reserve_block_device_name

1998556 - [OSP 16.2] Attempting to start or hard reboot a users instance as an admin with encrypted rbd volumes leaves the instance unbootable

1999583 - [OSP 16.2] Provide a workaround option and/or nova-manage command to force the refresh of connection_info during a hard reboot

2036652 - [HOTFIX] [OSP 16.2] - option for disabling FIX on instance name sanity check

2036690 - If an upper case mac address is used in a heat template, live migration won't work in nova

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