Moderate: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 (numpy) security update

Topic

An update for numpy is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1
(Train).

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.

Description

A fast multidimensional array facility for Python

Security Fix(es):

• buffer overflow in the PyArray_NewFromDescr_int() in ctors.c

(CVE-2021-33430)

• buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj() in fortranobject.c

(CVE-2021-41496)

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

• Red Hat OpenStack 16.1 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 16.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools 16.1 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools for IBM Power LE 16.1 ppc64le
• Cinderlib 16.1 x86_64
• Cinderlib for IBM Power LE 16.1 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2035034 - CVE-2021-33430 numpy: buffer overflow in the PyArray_NewFromDescr_int() in ctors.c
• BZ - 2035040 - CVE-2021-41496 numpy: buffer overflow in the array_from_pyobj() in fortranobject.c

CVEs

• CVE-2021-33430
• CVE-2021-41496

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate