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 14.0 (Rocky).

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: openstack-ceilometer (11.0.2). (BZ#1677462)

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 14 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 14 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1671261 - 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