Executive Summary

Summary
Title openstack-cinder security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2017:0156 First vendor Publication 2017-01-19
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2017-01-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated openstack-cinder packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7.

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 Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 - noarch

3. Description:

OpenStack Block Storage (cinder) manages block storage mounting and the presentation of such mounted block storage to instances. The backend physical storage can consist of local disks, or Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and NFS mounts attached to Compute nodes. In addition, Block Storage supports volume backups, and snapshots for temporary save and restore operations. Programmatic management is available via Block Storage's API.

Security Fix(es):

* A resource vulnerability in the Block Storage (cinder) service was found in its use of qemu-img. An unprivileged user could consume as much as 4 GB of RAM on the compute host by uploading a malicious image. This flaw could lead possibly to host out-of-memory errors and negatively affect other running tenant instances. (CVE-2015-5162)

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/):

1198169 - Cinder volumes attached to none 1268303 - CVE-2015-5162 openstack-nova/glance/cinder: Malicious image may exhaust resources 1370012 - NetApp Cinder driver: cloning operations are unsuccessful

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0156.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Application 5
Application 4

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-10-12 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3449-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-01-20 05:22:12
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