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Red Hat: RHSA-2017:1243-01 Moderate: OpenStack Heat Access Flaw

An update for openstack-heat is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: openstack-heat security, bug fix, and enhancement update Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:1243-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1243 Issue date: 2017-05-17 CVE Names: CVE-2017-2621 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for openstack-heat is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - noarch 3. Description: OpenStack Orchestration (heat) is a template-driven engine used to specify and deploy configurations for Compute, Storage, and OpenStack Networking. The service can be used to automate post-deployment actions, which in turn allows automated provisioning of infrastructure, services, and applications. Additionally, Orchestration can be integrated with Telemetry alarms to implement auto-scaling for certain infrastructure resources. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openstack-heat (7.0.2). (BZ#1431258) Security Fix(es): * An access-control flaw was found in the OpenStack Orchestration (heat) service where a service log directory was improperly made world readable. A malicious system user could exploit this flaw to accesssensitive information. (CVE-2017-2621) Red Hat would like to thank Hans Feldt (Ericsson) for reporting this issue. 4. 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 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1420990 - CVE-2017-2621 openstack-heat: /var/log/heat/ is world readable 1424578 - Heat doesn't inject personality files on rebuild 1424886 - Password written in clear text in heat-api.log with DEBUG mode [openstack-10] 1428632 - OpenStack Heat may fail to connect keystone admin API in multi-region environment 1428877 - [UPDATES] ERROR: The "pre-update" hook is not defined on SoftwareDeployment "UpdateDeployment" 1431258 - Rebase openstack-heat to stable/newton hash 6533b3d 6. Package List: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0: Source: openstack-heat-7.0.2-4.el7ost.src.rpm noarch: openstack-heat-api-7.0.2-4.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-heat-api-cfn-7.0.2-4.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch-7.0.2-4.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-heat-common-7.0.2-4.el7ost.noarch.rpm openstack-heat-engine-7.0.2-4.el7ost.noarch.rpm python-heat-tests-7.0.2-4.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 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2621 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFZHKz9XlSAg2UNWIIRArzmAJ9flM4PpDUWlQOTSWm2ZAnxvUhd6QCbBHUI HPtae1lWdPMBctXSqEb3KeE=/Pcs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Enterprise-watch-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Cautionary security update issued for openstack-heat, tackling a severe access vulnerability alongside crucial bug resolutionsspecific to the Red Hat environment.. Red Hat OpenStack, Access Flaw, Security Advisory. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 17, 2017 Red Hat