Issued:
2023-04-26
Updated:
2023-04-26

RHSA-2023:1948 - Low: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 openstack-nova - security update

Synopsis

Low: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (openstack-nova) security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (Train).

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 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):

  • Compute service fails to restart if the vnic_type of a bound port changed from direct to macvtap (CVE-2022-37394)

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 OpenStack16.2x86_64
Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power16.2ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • openstack-nova-compute-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-novncproxy-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-api-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.src.rpm
  • openstack-nova-scheduler-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-serialproxy-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • python3-nova-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-common-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-console-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-migration-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm
  • openstack-nova-conductor-20.6.2-2.20230308185148.fc01371.el8ost.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information