Issued:
2023-02-28
Updated:
2023-02-28

RHSA-2023:1015 - Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 openstack-nova - security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 (openstack-nova) security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.0 (Wallaby).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 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):

  • 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.

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 OpenStack17x86_64

Updated Packages

  • openstack-nova-migration-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-scheduler-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-serialproxy-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.src.rpm
  • openstack-nova-conductor-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-novncproxy-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • python3-nova-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-api-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-compute-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-common-23.2.2-0.20221209190753.7074ac0.el9ost.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information