Moderate: openstack-nova security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: openstack-nova security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton).

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

OpenStack Compute (nova) launches and schedules large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances and controlling access through users and projects.

Security Fix(es):

• openstack-nova: Nova server resource faults leak external exception details (CVE-2019-14433)
  

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 10 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1669225 - [BACKPORT Request] Nova returns a traceback when it's unable to detach a volume still in use
• BZ - 1697517 - [OSP10.z] Creating snapshot fails when image metadata has version field
• BZ - 1711390 - Scheduler is dumping all instances on a compute host
• BZ - 1721754 - nova-compute continuously records "Instance not resizing, skipping migration." for evacuated instances
• BZ - 1735522 - CVE-2019-14433 openstack-nova: Nova server resource faults leak external exception details

CVEs

• CVE-2019-14433

References

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