RHEL 7 : openstack-nova and python-novaclient (RHSA-2018:0369)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194059

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0369 advisory.

OpenStack Compute (nova) launches and schedules large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances and controlling access through users and projects.

python-novaclient is the python client for the OpenStack Nova API. The client's Python API (the novaclient module) and command-line script (nova) both implement 100% of the OpenStack Nova API.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openstack-nova (14.1.0), python- novaclient (6.0.2). (BZ#1501736)

Security Fix(es):

* By rebuilding an instance using a new image, an authenticated user may be able to circumvent the Filter Scheduler, bypassing imposed filters (for example, the ImagePropertiesFilter or the IsolatedHostsFilter).
(CVE-2017-16239)

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenStack project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges George Shuklin (Servers.com) as the original reporter.

Bug Fix(es):

* Prior to this update, QEMU (also known as TCG) guests had an issue where the `guest.get_vcpu_info` method was throwing an exception indicating that 0 were vCPUs used on the host, regardless of how many guests were running. Consequently, this caused the 'get_available_resources' method to report incorrect vCPUs used values for the Compute node. This meant it was overcounting resource consumption for plain QEMU guests, as they can only ever consume 1 pCPU of time, regardless of vCPU count. With this update, if a host does not report detailed vCPU usage from libvirt, then it should default to reporting 1 vCPU per guest, so that the 'vcpus_used' field reports some reasonably meaningful data on host CPU usage. As a result, libvirt does not report that 'cpu affinity is not supported' when guests are running in TCG.
(BZ#1515165)

* With this enhancement, the act of evacuating instances with pinned CPUs can result in these instances being hosted on a hypervisor which already handles instances with the same pinning configuration. This was added because the resource tracker does not track CPU pinning for instances on hosts. As a result, a condition has been added to the NUMATopologyFilter filter, which passes on hosts which already manage an instance with same CPU pinning configuration as the instance being evacuated. (BZ#1517272)

* Previously, the `request_spec.spec` column's TEXT type was too small, with the result that large request_specs may not have fit successfully. Consequently, running the online data migration as part of an OSP9 to OSP10 upgrade could have resulted in failure if an instance created before the upgrade had a large request_spec (for example, by having many members in its affinity/anti-affinity group). With this update, the request_spec.spec column has been increased to `MEDIUMTEXT`. As a result, online data migration should no longer fail during a OSP9 to OSP10 upgrade. (BZ#1526082)

* Previously, when detaching a Ceph volume connected to guest as a PCI device, the volume was not detached and libvirt reported an invalid PCI address. This arose because the PCI address of the device was not properly formatted due to a missing method in the guest XML formatter. To address this issue, this update adds a proper `format_dom` method for `LibvirtConfigGuestDeviceAddressPCI`. As a result, it is now possible to detach a Ceph volume. (BZ#1527345)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194059

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0369.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16239

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-novaclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-serialproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-cells, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-scheduler, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-network, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-console, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-spicehtml5proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nova-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nova, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-placement-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-compute, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-conductor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-cert, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-migration, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova-novncproxy

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16239

CWE: 841

RHSA: 2018:0369

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