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Red Hat OpenStack 17.0 (RHSA-2023-1017-01) Important: Arbitrary File Access

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2023
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Crucial security patch for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 to mitigate unauthorized file access via Glance.
An update for openstack-glance is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 (Wallaby)

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 Image Service (code-named Glance) provides discovery,registration, and delivery services for virtual disk images. The Image Service API server provides a standard REST interface for querying information about virtual disk images stored in a variety of back-end stores, including OpenStack Object Storage. Clients can register new virtual disk images with the Image Service, query for information on publicly available disk images, and use the Image Service's client library for streaming virtual disk images.
Security Fix(es):
* Arbitrary file access through custom VMDK flat descriptor (CVE-2022-47951)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important arbitrary file access Red Hat OpenStack openstack-glance image service

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-47951 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0:
Source: openstack-glance-22.1.1-0.20220919210603.677c89c.el9ost.src.rpm
noarch: openstack-glance-22.1.1-0.20220919210603.677c89c.el9ost.noarch.rpm python3-glance-22.1.1-0.20220919210603.677c89c.el9ost.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1017-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1017
Issue date: 2023-02-28

Topic

An update for openstack-glance is now available for Red Hat OpenStackPlatform 17.0 (Wallaby).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important arbitrary file access Red Hat OpenStack openstack-glance image service

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

2161812 - CVE-2022-47951 openstack: Arbitrary file access through custom VMDK flat descriptor

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