Issued:
2016-07-20
Updated:
2016-07-20

RHSA-2016:1474 - Low: openstack-neutron security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Low: openstack-neutron security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for openstack-neutron is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

Description

OpenStack Networking (neutron) is a pluggable, scalable, and API-driven system that provisions networking services to virtual machines. Its main function is to manage connectivity to and from virtual machines.

The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: openstack-neutron

Security Fix(es):

  • Neutron functionality includes internal firewall management between networks. Due to the relaxed nature of particular rules, it is possible for machines on the same layer 2 networks to forge non-IP traffic, such as ARP and DHCP requests. (CVE-2015-8914, CVE-2016-5362, CVE-2016-5363)

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenStack7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • openstack-neutron-embrane-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-cisco-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-ibm-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • python-neutron-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • python-neutron-tests-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-common-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-mellanox-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-metaplugin-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-linuxbridge-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-oneconvergence-nvsd-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-metering-agent-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.src.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-midonet-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-opencontrail-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-plumgrid-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-vmware-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-ml2-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-openvswitch-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-nec-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-brocade-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-ovsvapp-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-bigswitch-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-ofagent-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-nuage-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-neutron-sriov-nic-agent-2015.1.4-2.el7ost.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information