Moderate: openstack-octavia security update

Synopsis

Moderate: openstack-octavia security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openstack-octavia 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 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

The OpenStack Load Balancing service (openstack-octavia) provides a Load Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) version 2 implementation for Red Hat OpenStack platform director based installations.

Security Fix(es):

• openstack-octavia: Private keys written to world-readable log files (CVE-2018-16856)
  

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 - 1547449 - [Octavia] Provider driver / third party plugin framework
• BZ - 1633019 - CVE-2018-16856 openstack-octavia: Private keys written to world-readable log files [openstack-14-default]
• BZ - 1634986 - All existing amphora instances are deleting when RabbitMQ is down
• BZ - 1649165 - CVE-2018-16856 openstack-octavia: Private keys written to world-readable log files
• BZ - 1672299 - Rebase openstack-octavia to import

CVEs

• CVE-2018-16856

References

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