RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (openstack-nova) (RHSA-2023:1948)

low Nessus Plugin ID 194240

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (openstack-nova).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1948 advisory.

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.

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 RHEL Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (openstack-nova) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1948.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051631

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2075467

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2084239

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2088676

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2117333

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2138381

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140992

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151410

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158181

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2164970

http://www.nessus.org/u?5187279c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1948

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 194240

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1948.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37394

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-nova, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-37394

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2023:1948