Low: openstack-ceilometer security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Low: openstack-ceilometer security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for openstack-ceilometer is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens).

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 Telemetry (ceilometer) collects customer usage data for metering purposes. Telemetry implements bus listener, push, and polling agents for data collection. This data is stored in a database and presented via the REST API. In addition, Telemetry's extensible design means it can be optionally extended to gather customized data sets.

Security Fix(es):

• openstack-ceilometer: ceilometer-agent prints sensitive data from config files through log files (CVE-2019-3830)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) 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 13 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 13 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1659044 - Undercloud installation fails with --skip-metering-database when telemetry is enabled
• BZ - 1669296 - Rebase openstack-ceilometer to 8944142
• BZ - 1671037 - ceilometer writing snmp credentials to log file
• BZ - 1677389 - CVE-2019-3830 openstack-ceilometer: ceilometer-agent prints sensitive data from config files through log files

CVEs

• CVE-2019-3830

References

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