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Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0165-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0165-01
Posted Jan 20, 2017
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0165-01 - OpenStack Block Storage 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.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0165-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: openstack-cinder security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0165-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0165.html
Issue date: 2017-01-19
CVE Names: CVE-2015-5162
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1. Summary:

An update for openstack-cinder is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6.

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 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6 - 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/):

1268303 - CVE-2015-5162 openstack-nova/glance/cinder: Malicious image may exhaust resources

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for RHEL 6:

Source:
openstack-cinder-2014.1.5-9.el6ost.src.rpm

noarch:
openstack-cinder-2014.1.5-9.el6ost.noarch.rpm
openstack-cinder-doc-2014.1.5-9.el6ost.noarch.rpm
python-cinder-2014.1.5-9.el6ost.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-2015-5162
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
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